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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

A guest post by: Artem Muravev: ...

The annual report of the Assisted Dying Registrar is here. Some key aspects: ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 19, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 19 July 2026 ...

I received the following e-mail (names redacted by me) a couple of months ago: This report summarises a series of serious allegations and concerns raised regarding conduct associated with the ...

Chris Luxon said in Whangarei that “I don’t need to do this job” and ““I choose to do this job because actually I want the potential in this great country of ours to be realised for the benefit of our ...