Half-baked attempts to fix New Zealand’s failing health system has resulted in Aotearoa drifting into a hybrid public-private model that threatens to combine the worst of both w ...

The government needed to do more to fund public aged residential care and also support services that allowed people to go back to their own homes, rather than the “last resort” of having to stay in ...

Yesterday there was a dump of information about the cancellation under urgency of pay equity claims earlier this year. The timing is suspicious. A Thursda ...

Ministers Shane Jones and Chris Bishop continued to make decisions about several fast-track projects despite their respective parties receiving donations linked to the applicants. One political ...

Zarah Sultana for one – she’s a star. Gaza for another – anti-zionism/semitism won’t work this time. 500,000 signed up in a week for a new political party is impressive. Ten years ago when Jeremy ...

Newsroom is reporting that Judith Collins’ Bill of Rights advice on the Government’s proposed changes to the Electoral Act removing election day enrollments is that it breaches the New Zealand Bill of ...

The line that all the things NACTFirst embrace are "imported culture wars" is a cop-out. eg Labour & the GP imported the current transgenderist lines ( from US: self ID, pronoun enforcement, ...

Those early voting numbers exceed ALL of ACT and NZ First’s votes by a ratio of 107%. In 2023, all special votes 4, including enrolments 13 days 5 and up to election day, gave Te Pāti Māori two more ...

Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Housing and MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, is calling on the Associate Minister for ‘Homelessness’ Tama Potaka to urgently answer to all whānau and ...

The latest Talbot/Mills poll continues to show the gradual erosion of support for the present government – the leaders are ...

I also said that if you want to maximise the number of people voting then same day enrolments are a no brainer. But if you want to skewer things away from the poor and the young then you will remove ...

In politics, regulatory capture is a form of corruption of authority that occurs when a political entity, policymaker, or regulator is co-opted to serve the commercial, ideological, or political ...