Five years on from the onset of the pandemic, it is becoming clear the Government’s finances are suffering from long Covid – not just a Covid hangover. Many Kiwis have taken their medicine – stomached ...

Will he look into getting rid of seatbelts in cars? What about aircraft safety briefings? We ask how far is too far for the Regulation Minister’s red tape crusade. A lot of people seem to have got out ...

Erica Stanford made the pretty obvious decision that books designed to teach kids English should use English words, and the usual suspects are claiming it is everything from white supremacy to ...

I blogged in early August on how MPs appear to have been scared into supporting a retrospective law change to protect ANZ and ASB Banks form a six year old law suit over their failure to make correct ...

Chlöe Swarbrick became a distraction from the debate on Palestine during a crucial week in which Israel stepped up bombardments of Gaza City and New Zealand began debating a huge issue. But ...

Stuff reports: Chris Bishop says he’s looking forward to spending 10 minutes playing an unusual new protest game called “beat the Bish”. The housing minister’s political opponents in Wellington, ...

Protesting outside someone's home is set to be made an offence, with the government introducing new legislation carrying fines or jail sentences if people target private residences. While it will ...

Matua Kahurangi writes: New Zealand should be disgusted. A 46-year-old member of a wealthy family has been convicted of possessing and importing over 11,000 files of child sexual abuse material, ...

KiwiRail has settled with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard with a $144 million final payment following the cancellation of the Project iRex ferries. In a press statement, Rail Minister Winston Peters was highly ...

A guest post from Nick Hanne of the Free Speech Union: I recently discovered that perhaps the most vocal and unabashed proxy in New Zealand for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lives in a street ...

The Reserve Bank has dropped the OCR by a further 0.25% to 3.0%. They note: The US has increased tariffs on their imports from most countries. US tariffs on New Zealand goods have increased from 10% ...