Radio NZ ran a tragic story about a teenager who starved to death alone despite the involvement of multiple agencies in their life. They developed anorexia at age 12 (and were sexually abused at age 5 ...

Whakatāne Mayor Victor Luca has made an appeal to the Government for support to keep Air Chathams flying out of Whakatāne. A response from Associate Transport Minister James Meager has provided hope, ...

Waititi said the removal of the homeless people was “callous attacks” on “vulnerable whānau”. He said they were woken by police, trespassed like criminals and had their belongings “tipped out, broken, ...

The PSA would have you think that the Government has culled a huge proportion of the public service, as they hysterically oppose even the most minor reductions in staff numbers. Of course they have a ...

I wrote recently how the PM dislikes taking a stand on issues, until he sees how the land lies. That may have be a better approach before he came out guns blazing reprimanding the Israel Defence Force ...

"Apology to David Garrett In the event my statement “Our tough on guy on crime got convicted” has been interpreted as a reference to former Act MP David Garrett, I wish to make it clear that Mr ...

While Māori business success is worth celebrating, the Crown’s quiet offloading of Treaty obligations onto non-Māori citizens is tilting the market—and it’s time we talked about it. ------------------ ...

One powerful indicator of the government’s true intent with reigning in the way they spend taxpayer’s income is the size of the Public Sector workforce. For the second successive quarter the size of ...

The 119 individuals and families profiled are now collectively worth $102.1 billion – up from $95.55 billion last year. To put this in perspective, that’s more than 40% of the nation’s GDP ...

Michael Shermer at Persuasion writes: A research proposal on cosmic inflation from an acclaimed German quantum physicist is rejected because she did not address the ...

After spending $23m but failing to modernise the births, deaths and marriages registry, officials are having another go. The Department of Internal Affairs has written off $22.9m on the project ...