Closing enrolment the day before advance voting starts, so that a final vote count can be done in a timely manner (In Australia it closes 26 days before the election) Banning provision of free food et ...

Do you recall Jacinda promised to solve homelessness? I think she said in four weeks. Would it surprise anyone to learn that according to the census, it increased 37%? The Homelessness Insights report ...

Paul Goldsmith has appointed the Judicial Conduct Panel into Acting Judge Ema Aitken. The members are: Honourable Brendan Brown KC. Brown will chair it. He was a Court of Appeal Judge for 8 years and ...

New Zealand exports will face a 15% tariff after the latest moves from US President Donald Trump. Trump signed the order for new tariffs to go into effect in 7 days on a wide swathe of US trading ...

Dear Minister of Internal Affairs Van Velden, The National library has announced that there will be a closure today of the Molesworth Street library ground floor, from 11:30am to 3pm on Friday 1 ...

The Green Party and its closest mayoral candidate have independently come up with near-identical housing policies by targeting land banking with a promise of lessening future rates rises. The policy, ...

Houses and rents are more affordable as costs fall and consumers benefit from lower interest rates and higher wages, according to new reports from Massey University. National home affordability ...

July 30, 2025 8:00am by Kokila PatelGeneral Debate 30 July 2025 ...

An excellent article by Roger Partridge on an analysis by Emeritus Professor Peter Watts KC on the Supreme Court's actions in Ellis vs R. I recommend you read the whole thing, but a key extract is: ...

The directors of Nanogirl Labs have said the decision to appoint a liquidator for their company last year was devastating. “We poured our hearts and souls into our business, we believed profoundly in ...

Several respondents said their schools bankrolled literacy catch-up classes and training from the Kahui Ako scheme that gave some teachers release time for specialist work with other teachers in their ...

I did an update to my article on Fale Andrew Lesa, noting Stuff reported that he said he said he is resigning from all his roles. I remember reading that and thinking he didn't say he had resigned, ...