Erica Stanford (Education) 4.01/5 Simeon Brown (Transport) 3.89/5 Nicola Willis (Finance) 3.88/5 Chris Bishop (Infrastructure) 3.88/5 Judith Collins (Defence) 3.74/5 Christopher Luxon (Prime Minister) ...

Today as the one-year anniversary of October 7 approaches I decided to counterprotest this week’s pro-Hamas march down Queen Street. I thought my experiences were worth narrating. Today’s message I ...

The Taxpayers' Union is telling Hastings Mayor Sandra Hazlehurst to 'grow up' after she used her casting vote to give committee voting rights, and a salary, to members of the Hastings District Youth ...

The first anniversary of the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel is approaching, and not a day since has passed when the consequences and after-shocks of that terrible day have not been felt ...

New Zealand’s Defence Minister has all but resigned herself to losing a $100m Navy ship, which struck a reef, burned, then sank while the 75 on board made a daring escape in strong currents and waves ...

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith authorised “every constable” in New Zealand to take Kim Dotcom into custody and detain him until he could be handed over to American officials, as part of ongoing ...

Matthew Hooton wrote in the NZ Herald last week that “There’s no doubt that both Māori and Pākehā in 1840 understood tino rangatiratanga to be a bigger deal than kāwanatanga”.1 However whilst this is ...

The usual suspects are up in arms because the Government diverted $30 million for teaching teachers te reo, to an initiative to teach students maths. This is the reality of government - you have to ...

Debbie Ngawera-Packer spent $39,000 in airfares in three months which is $3,000 a week. She lives in New Plymouth where return airfares from Wellington are around $400 a week. new retiring Labour MP ...

The fifth health target is that 95% of patients wait less than four months for elective treatment. Again in 2015 and 2016, over 99% got treatment within four months. It has now dropped to 61.8%. A ...

Waka-jumping laws are fundamentally undemocratic and wrong—except when a coalition agreement forces us to support them, after which we will vote for their repeal to affirm our opposition, but then ...

If you felt life got worse in the last five years, you were not alone. The 2023 General Social Survey data lets us see the changes since 2018, and 2021. Changes are: So after Labour’s wellbeing budget ...