The Parliamentary Counsel Office (who draft the laws) have published a useful tool for government agencies and MPs who are involved in law making. Basically you enter details around a proposed law ...

Climate scientist Michael Mann won $1 million in a defamation lawsuit against writer Mark Steyn. However the damages have been reduced to $5,000 due to false claims by Mann about lost grants. Some ...

Could Matt Doocey's transgender stance be contributing to anxiety in our young? Like Ardern's mythical 'climate emergency'? I sent an email to Winston Peters after I read New Zealand First has ...

A District Court judge accused of interrupting a New Zealand First function at an exclusive Auckland club says she mouthed an inaudible comment after hearing a snippet of a speech about the teaching ...

I read this Newsroom article to try and work out what Labour's position on public-private partnerships is. It seems to be: Labour is open to supporting PPPs where they make commercial sense and where ...

The Technology Users Association (TUANZ) is raising concerns about the potential risks of deregulating the long-standing copper network outside urban areas as proposed by the Commerce Commission in ...

The day began with a meeting with Modi, hugs and general admiration, and ended with Luxon delivering the best speech he has made in many months, followed by an informal mixer with the business and ...

Jan 2008 – June 2009: -2.5% Jul 2010 – Dec 2010: -0.8% Jan 2020 – June 2020: -11.5% Apr 2024 – Sep 2024: -2.1% Average annual economic growth from 2018 to 2024 was just 1.8% a year. From 2012 to 2018 ...

As someone whose life work is in education I hear adults complain so often about the "next generation". This quote has always anchored me: 'The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for ...

A US obstetrician-gynaecologist has cast serious doubt on a high-profile child abuse conviction, asserting the main injuries sustained by the baby were the result of trauma suffered during labour and ...

Central to Sachs’s worldview is the claim that NATO’s eastward expansion forced Russia’s hand. According to this narrative, the West broke solemn promises made in 1990 not to expand “one inch eastward ...