Paul Goldsmith announced some changes to electoral law. The more useful ones are: Consider removing the requirement for a street address in promoter statements in light of personal safety and security ...

Following the news that two reserve Bank managers had resigned, I checked out their management structure. They have six Assistant Governors and a massive 27 directors or third level managers. Just ...

Māori activist and former MP Hone Harawira has criticised a recent Te Pāti Māori candidate for confronting Cabinet Minister Casey Costello at a food court on Tuesday evening. ... Former Māori Party ...

I was involved in beginning South Auckland Middle School in Manurewa. We had 120 students to start and quickly grew to 180 and with a waiting list of over 100. The students were over 85% Maori and ...

Double murderer Mark Lundy will be released from prison next month, despite holding firm to the position that he never killed his wife and daughter. Lundy has spent more than 23 years behind bars for ...

The Security Intelligence Service (SIS) launched its own investigation into concerns that RNZ had been used for foreign interference. The SIS became involved in 2023 over a scandal at the state ...

According to a Cabinet paper released by Willis, the bank’s operational spending shot up from $158m in 2023/24 to $200m in 2024/25 – an astonishing increase of $42m, a sum of money that as recently as ...

After almost a year and a half, in which time the party has managed to go to court, use the rarely used waka jumping law and deal with another candidate selection headache, the Green Party has finally ...

Pere Huriwai-Seger is a Te Pāti Māori candidate. He saw Casey Costello in a foodcourt and proceeded to berate her. Casey politely said “We’re not going to agree, so just move on”. But this guy then ...

Local authority rates and payments increased 12.2 percent in the 12 months to the March 2025 quarter (14 percent contribution to the 2.5 percent increase). Rates are captured once a year in the ...

Green MP Tamatha Paul has launched a fundraising campaign for a group wanting to “defund the police” and close the court system. Paul has been attracting attention over recent weeks for her comments ...

Back in 2021 I pointed out in a post, There shall be minor changes, that in 2000 we had 28,000 ‘crats for a population of about 3.8 million, one ‘crat for every 136 subjects – while in 2020 the ratio ...