Andrew Little says our government is willing to “explore” participating in AUKUS Pillar 2, but “foreign or local voices would not be a factor.” Our leaders will decide he says. I say “taihoa.” ...

Chris Luxon has doubled down on a dog whistle attack on South Auckland garages by apologising if anyone was offended, thereby ignoring most of South Auckland who were definitely offended.

We have remarkably little democracy left in New Zealand. Prior to 1989 we had hundreds of little borough councils, from Kaitaia to Glen Eden to Winton. We had County Councils from the Bay of Islands ...

Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark – the safest pair of hands this country has had in living memory – gave a masterclass on the importance of maintaining an independent foreign policy when ...

There is a suppression in place on parts of the Phillips case/shooting. We don't know what it covers because (stupidly) the courts do not inform us on what is covered. So everything is suppressed here ...

"The projected mix of labour/greens/tpm has the potential to effect real/needed change". Potential is no good without the will to do something with it and that seems to be lacking at the moment.

The Media Council has upheld a complaint against a Bryce Edwards article published on RNZ's website that incorrectly stated that Labour went into the 2020 election promising to break up the ...

Although ferry news has dominated politics this week there was another event that also deserves intense attention. This week saw the committee stages of the Fast-Track Approvals Bill. The bill has ...

Nigel Haworth argues that the 2012 reforms of the Labour Party created a perverse effect. Not to engender stronger member voice, but to empower a managerial model akin to a Piketty's Brahmin caste. It ...

Fonterra is a complete construct of the New Zealand state, but it is pulling our entire country down. Fonterra dominates our dairy industry, which accounts for around 3.1% of our entire GDP. It is ...

Te Pāti Māori is calling out the Government’s proposed changes to sick leave entitlements as a cruel step backwards that punishes low-income, part-time, single parents and essential workers. We ...

Thanks to Michael Pezzullo’s Strategist article last month, we now know that Australia’s 2009 defence white paper foresaw our risky future and planned for it. The white paper’s outlook for Chinese ...