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 ...

David Seymour is standing by the driving that saw him land in the crosshairs of a State Highway 1 motorist’s cellphone, with footage posted to Reddit showing the Deputy Prime Minister apparently ...

An immigrant who tried to rip off his health insurer twice by submitting fake X-rays and medical notes for bogus conditions won’t face deportation as long as he completes a community service sentence.

Northland College is making moves to become a charter school and is the first state school to publicly reveal it is doing so. The Kaikohe school says it desperately needs to do something to lift ...

A young man jailed for a spree of armed robberies in the Waikato was back reoffending soon after being released, but this time targeted stores and people around the North Island. When Katana Faulkner ...

Wayne Brown 59% Rob McNeil, Animal Justice 9% Kerrin Leoni 7% So the left wing Councillor challenging Wayne Brown is behind the Animal Justice candidate!

I earlier blogged on a Labour activist endorsing Brown, but this is even more newsworthy as here we not only have a Labour MP endorsing Brown, but he explicitly says there is no "credible opposition".

Labour MP Willie Jackson has suggested price regulations as a possible option to address cost-of-living pressures, but also says it is not his party’s policy. Yet is the missing word! The response did ...

Opposition leader Chris Hipkins says he has learned from past mistakes and will avoid wholesale repeal of coalition policies if Labour wins next year’s election, ending the economically damaging ...