This is not a joke. What is even worse than the fact this all happened, is the silence by almost all legacy media over this.
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Misuse of HDCA

One of New Zealand’s biggest news organisations is appealing a precedent-setting court decision, in which a man convicted of assaulting his partner convinced a judge that an online news article about ...
A major education union is seeking legal advice in a bid to exempt state schools from the Official Information Act after an Auckland law student sent an onerous “system-wide” records request to nearly ...
Versions of below have been in media around the world in the last two weeks. “In its 2026 assessment, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development highlighted the world’s most educated ...
It shows many NZers who are on the right are allergic to Radio NZ, TVNZ, Stuff, The Spinoff and Three News. Those newsrooms could consider what they could do to change that. It was good to see overall ...
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Tax everything

Tax Justice Aotearoa have published their wishlist for a Labour-Green-TPM Government, and it can be summed up as tax everything. They Wishlist includes: Increase the tax rate from 33% to 50% for those ...
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April 21, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 21 April 2026 ...
Is anyone else a little tired of articles that tell us we aren’t saving enough for our retirement, or that the country can’t afford New Zealand Superannuation (NZS)? Most seem fuelled by KiwiSaver ...
UK Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch writes: We can see it everywhere – from the recent looting by hordes of teenagers, to the explosion in welfare dependency, to the tide of small-boat arrivals that ...
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Do it Goldie!

The Government is weighing changes to the Broadcasting Standards Authority, with Media and Communications Minister Paul Goldsmith signalling disestablishment is currently his preferred option.
I saw a story about how the BSA only had 90 complaints in the last year, so less than two a week. That got me interested in how this compares to the NZ Media Council who consider company’s about ...