Ministers Shane Jones and Chris Bishop continued to make decisions about several fast-track projects despite their respective parties receiving donations linked to the applicants. One political ...

Al Jazeera: Once a pioneer of the social welfare state, New Zealand now has over 40,000 people who are homeless, forced to live in their cars and in garages as a result of rapid house price and rent ...

A quick Brethren reference By: Dancer - 10:56 pm, August 2nd, 2008 - 121 comments Categories: election 2008, john key, national - Tags: ...

The line that all the things NACTFirst embrace are "imported culture wars" is a cop-out. eg Labour & the GP imported the current transgenderist lines ( from US: self ID, pronoun enforcement, ...

The focus groups have spoken. National has performed a complete reversal on the bipartisan changes to the Resource Management Act amendments designed to improve housing supply and introduced only 18 ...

If we are to renew the purpose of democracy after this current bunch of old people have had a crack at shrinking it, we need to turn this into something prospective voters can actually hope for: they ...

Gallipoli was then. Gaza is now. Gallipoli was a disaster, driven by arrogance and incompetence. Gaza is an atrocity, driven by unconscionable evil. The news today that the Israeli forces are ...

Everybody is wrong except David Seymour * By: mickysavage - 12:25 pm, July 16th, 2025 - 23 comments Categories: Christopher Luxon, coalition of chaos, david seymour, making shit up, spin, the ...

The point is that the Congress has abrogated its duty as a co-branch of government. They haven’t removed the damn ‘gun’ that Trump has been waving around. The ‘gun’ in this case is that Trump is that ...

Really appreciate this write-up and the focus on narrative shift: it's sorely needed. In response to the broader question of what is the point of taxation, a few key principles often get lost in the ...

Reposted from Mountain Tui Substack I’d like to speak about something in which I have no qualifications in at all – LGBTQ+ At a younger age, I remember sitting on a train and feeling the eyes of an ...