Green Party MP Benjamin Doyle is leaving Parliament, in a sudden resignation months after saying they refused to be “disappeared by hate” and did not consider standing down amid questions over their ...

Nicola Willis has announced some significant changes to encourage a third supermarket chain. They are: Legislate so that new supermarkets which would improve grocery competition qualify as fast-track ...

A Royal Commission is our nation’s highest form of inquiry, reserved for the most important issues. To ensure confidence in its findings, commissioners have the power to summon witnesses and take ...

Received a pamphlet from Andrew Little in the letterbox. He makes five key pledges in it, so I thought it would be useful to record them here, and analyse how one could judge if he has kept his word, ...

I am a purist when it comes to Reserve Bank independence over setting the Official Cash Rate. I have long advocated that PMs and Finance Ministers shouldn't express a view in public or private as to ...

ACT MP Todd Stephenson is today re-lodging his End of Life Choice Amendment Bill, incorporating every single recommendation from the Ministry of Health’s 2024 statutory review of the End of Life ...

The left wing Third Way organisation has published a list of 45 words other than says Democrats (the left) should avoid using as they alienate people. Sadly for the, I doubt the right people will ...

If the voters of Tamaki Makarau send Oriini Kaipara to Parliament this Saturday they need a collective mental health assessment where the first question should be “are you barking mad?” In the history ...

Scientist Dr Mike Joy is making no apologies for an internet post in which he criticises the dairy industry about nitrate contamination of drinking water and asks: “How about we bring back hanging for ...

Learning to read is the first step in school education. It is essential to later learning. At first, it is also very difficult. Things are made much easier for beginning readers if they are explicitly ...

An interesting story by Chris Lynch. Left wing Councillor and mayoral candidate Sara Templeton said during an interview that under Lianne Dalziel Christchurch was resurfacing 5% of its roading network ...

Approving the Organics Processing Solution on 7 August also approved the wider “Zero Waste” Programme because the partner “Collections” Project for new bins is already approved. Last week’s decision ...