Dame Jacinda Ardern says she will provide evidence to assist the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Covid-19 response. This week there was speculation about whether the former prime minister, who is ...

The government has decided not to increase a problem gambling tax on the industry following a critical report from the Gambling Commission. The independent regulator says there's no evidence from the ...

Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman has taken to social media to call out an Auckland restaurant she alleges subjected her dining group to “gross treatment” and cancelled their booking midway ...

Two years after it happened, we finally have a summary of the Police notes about what happened when then Justice Minister Kiri Allan crashed her car under the influence of alcohol. Key aspects are: Ve ...

So the solar farm operator has to arrange mandatory prayers for any native trees they remove, to provide solar power to 7,500 homes. On the assumption that this is mandated because native trees have ...

The ideal vs the NZ situation. In terms of per capita GDP Singapore leads the world (2023 figures) at US$141,553. NZ is 43rd at $53,481. Bruce Cotterill has a very good piece in the NZH last week on ...

This post is a warmup for a topic I have been wanting to cover for years, that of Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS. There are various stages and levels of TDS and various subcategories of people who ...

Exposed: Why New Zealand turned on Jacinda Ardern pic.twitter.com/psM5feVmxM ...

The Taxpayers' Union can reveal that Te Wharekura o Tauranga Moana is set to take staff to Tahiti this Friday and refuses to answer basic questions to justify the spend. Taxpayers' Union Executive Dir ...

Elon Musk declared the launch of his new political party on Saturday, a project he has repeatedly floated in the weeks since his explosive breakup with President Donald Trump — but provided no details ...

Sir Ian Taylor has done an open letter to Jacinda Ardern, and it seems to have struck a real chord. He wrote it after reading her autobiography. Taylor used to be a huge huge fan of Ardern. He says so ...