When I announced a week ago that I was organising a counterprotest to the anti-Israel protest down Queen Street today, I saw a number of people express reservations on Twitter about whether the Police ...

Some readers pointed out that the principal charged with stealing $500,000 from his school was in the media just two years ago saying: Palmerston North principal Wayne Jenkins has done the sums and he ...

A project that looks to harness the potential of supercritical geothermal energy is amongst 19 ambitious science programmes the Government is backing, Science, Innovation and Technology Minister Dr ...

The Coalition Government will support at risk regional air routes with up to $30 million in loans from the Regional Infrastructure Fund for small passenger airlines, Regional Development Minister ...

Robert Redford was arguably the dominant A list actor of my childhood. Out of Africa remains one of the saddest films I have seen. He kept working up until the age of 82, playing Alexander Pierce in ...

Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere says MP Tākuta Ferris was, in essence, correct when he hit out at non-Māori supporting Labour’s Māori electorate campaign. Tamihere said Ferris could have worded ...

The key statistic for NZ education vs the world – is that we have the highest gap between students who do well and those who do not. These gaps exist within schools by ethnicity. E.g. For Auckland ...

The NZ Initiative has put out a great report proposing a much more efficient structure for both Cabinet and the wider Executive. NZ currently has 81 ministerial portfolios, 28 ministers and 43 ...

Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris has doubled down on social media comments he made last week which led to “racist” allegations and an apology from his party. In a new Instagram video, Ferris said it is ...

Teachers and principals warn the government is scrubbing Māori words and ideas from education documents. At an urgently convened conference in Wellington this week, educators said mention of the ...

It has been revealed just how unimpressed Treasury was with the Reserve Bank for pitching for a 50% funding increase shortly before Adrian Orr resigned as governor. As they should be. Treasury raised ...

It has been interesting (and at times very sad) to see how various people have responded to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was just 31 years old and was assassinated while he was literally ...