The NRL's first openly gay player has slammed the NZ Breakers as "cowards" for not wearing the rainbow Pride flag in next year's NBL Pride Round. The Breakers are the second club to opt out of the ...

A probe into conflict-of-interest allegations at the Teaching Council was sparked by a whistle blower’s claims the agency spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds on an advertising firm ...

The NZ Crime and Victims' Survey has released its latest data to August 2025, and it is staggering how much violent crime has dropped. When you declare war on the gangs, instead of funding them, the ...

The Government has announced major local government reforms, with one major aspects that Regional Councillors will be replaced by local Mayors. One of the problems of Regional Councils is that when ...

In 2013/14 the youth smoking rate for 15 to 17 year olds was 8.9% or 1 in 11 youth. In the latest NZ Health Survey results it is down to 0.7% or 1 in 140 youth. There is little doubt that this is ...

ACT has listed ten reasons to oppose Labour's Capital Gains Tax. They are: The rate will increase over time, as income tax has gone from 5% to 39% and GST from 10% to 15% It’s a gift to tax accountant ...

Today, the Greens are announcing that a Green Government will commit to revoking any consents or permits handed out under the fast-track process for coal, Hardrock gold and seabed mining. This is the ...

The attacks made by National, Act and NZ First, that the party is all theatrics and no substance, and that its MPs never bother spending much time in Parliament, have begun to land – even Labour leade ...

Israel’s president and high-ranking military officials on Wednesday condemned attacks a day earlier by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, calling for an end to a growing wave of ...

House Democrats are back at work — and, boy, are they mad. They’re mad at the Senate Democrats who cut them out of negotiations and cut the deal to reopen the government after a record 43-day shutdown ...

Over the last 30 years, state sectors of Western democracies have expanded and senior level state employment, with its high pay, security and access to the levers of power became a magnet for the ...