I regret to inform you that cultural reports are back, wearing a wig and a false mustache. In March 2024, Parliament passed the Legal Services Amendment Bill, which abolished public legal aid funding ...

New revelations this week show Te Pāti Māori still hasn’t produced an auditor’s report for its 2023 financial statements of political donations. The party told the Electoral Commission that a “delay ...

The latest NZ Crime and Victims Survey has found a massive drop in the number of New Zealanders who say they were the victim of a violent (including sexual) crime in the last year. Now recall these ar ...

I knew immediately on the day of my arrest that there was something terribly wrong with police oversight and accountability structures in this country, and said as much in a Kiwiblog article at the ...

The coalition has directed Health New Zealand to say "women" instead of "pregnant people" in its communications about health issues. Associate Health Minister Casey Costello wrote to interim chief ...

The number who see the US as an ally has fallen to 43% (down 6 pts since early March), meanwhile Brits are actually more likely to say that Donald Trump is an enemy rather than an ally of the UK ...

There were 17,028 Maori babies born in 2024. According to an official information response from the Ministry of Social Development, 5,997 were dependent on welfare by the end of the year. That’s 35.2 ...

Pope Francis has died aged 88. He was Pope for 12 years, a Cardinal for 24 years, Archbishop for 27 years and a Bishop for 32 years. He was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio and was the first Jesuit Pope. He ...

All sensible stuff. A big focus needs to be on getting final results as soon as possible after election day. Ridiculous to wait three weeks for final results when you have also had advance voting for ...