The radicals on the right are radical because they don’t want to see crime … The radicals on the left are the problem – and they are vicious and horrible and politically savvy. They want men in ...

In 2023, special votes meant National lost 2 seats and could not govern with ACT alone. The Green Party and Te Pati Māori gained after special votes were counted (special votes include from people who ...

That would make sense if universities collectively had the national interest in mind. But they are now profit-seeking enterprises, so of course Waikato wants a med school to drag students away from ...

Watching NZME Newstalk ZB is like watching Fox News to my mind. Earlier in the year, Fox hosted then “DOGE” (Department of Government Efficiency) head Elon Musk where he spouted the “benefits” of his ...

Perhaps the biggest news from a jam packed news week is how, under National’s Health Ministers Shane Reti & Simeon Brown, Health NZ illegally hid staffing data for over a year to conceal their ...

Classic Key clanger By: Demeter - 3:43 pm, March 18th, 2010 - 6 comments In this article, in which a Kaikoura Whale Watch spokesman states the bloody obvious (that if New Zealand turns pro-whaling his ...

In the words of the Prophet Springsteen: "At the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe" (Nebraska). It is complacent to presume voter party loyalty if you don't give them ...

suggests he is competent enough Havn't dealt much with NZ management, have you? The two don't follow each other. The assumption that "Managers" AKA, bean counters promoted to "post turtles" are ...

OK, so what’s been happening on 7AA then? The government wants to repeal it. It honours and entrenches the Treaty of Waitangi into the legislation, it honours and respects Maori customs and culture – ...

David Seymour is on a roll. He keeps popping up in the media talking about how his Treay Principles Bill is a good thing and will not completely undermine the Treaty of Waitangi. He has been ...

I'm getting to the point politically that I'm open to which ever party gets the most votes is the leader of the house, and all the other parties are confidence and supply parties, and policy is always ...

Yesterday, the hospital I work at was short of fourteen nurses on the D shift [pm]. That was covered by overtime at double time, twenty eight more nurses could have been employed for that cost. Don't ...