Stuart Nash has confirmed he has resigned as a New Zealand First candidate, after backlash over his comments had become “a significant distraction”. It comes after Nash accused National’s Napier MP ...

A Labour MP is accusing Act’s Paul Henry of making a “death threat” against leader Chris Hipkins in a radio game, but the former broadcaster says there was no “violent rhetoric” and it was “plainly ...

This is the latest data. Regular attendance dropped 16 percentage points or 25% from 2017 to 2023. A disaster. Since 2023 it has increased 17 percentage points or 37%. In real terms there are 157,000 ...

Readers should click on the tweet above and read it in full. Basically he makes the following points: Our current global population of 8+ billion people is only alive because of a supply chain ...

“History in its making” – readers will have noticed how “give or take possibly 5000 people being potentially protected” within a short sentence or two, became “those 5000 people, who don’t know who ...

New Zealand’s consumers price index (CPI) increased 4.1 percent in the 12 months to the June 2026 quarter, according to figures released by Stats NZ today. The largest upwards contributor to the ...

Agreed it’s mostly about the polling. The Nats have been bleeding votes in more than one direction. Their solution to the rightward bleed is this belated attempt to signal opposition to co-governance ...

A former political figure involved in a late night bar incident can now be named. Jack Brazil, a former Green Party candidate and high profile activist, appeared for sentencing before community ...

It is clear – from school feedback and an Auditor General’s report that the current school lunch programme is beset with issues. Societally it is controversial as our history in this area has been ...

A re-elected National Government will modernise sexual consent laws to specify there must always be a “yes,” rather than an absence of a “no,” National’s Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says.

A depressing poll from Pew. This is the sad legacy of Trump. More people in the UK, Australia and Canada have a favourable view of China than the US.

Peggy Burrows is the Principal of Haeata Community Campus. I have covered previously her claiming they received mouldy food from their school lunch provider. An ...