There is, in New Zealand, a certain powerful, tightly controlled organisation. It has secretive membership numbers, opaque finances and a history of safeguarding and other scandals. It boasts strong ...

Paul Goldsmith announced some changes to electoral law. The more useful ones are: Consider removing the requirement for a street address in promoter statements in light of personal safety and security ...

Māori activist and former MP Hone Harawira has criticised a recent Te Pāti Māori candidate for confronting Cabinet Minister Casey Costello at a food court on Tuesday evening. ... Former Māori Party ...

Following the news that two reserve Bank managers had resigned, I checked out their management structure. They have six Assistant Governors and a massive 27 directors or third level managers. Just ...

I was involved in beginning South Auckland Middle School in Manurewa. We had 120 students to start and quickly grew to 180 and with a waiting list of over 100. The students were over 85% Maori and ...

The Security Intelligence Service (SIS) launched its own investigation into concerns that RNZ had been used for foreign interference. The SIS became involved in 2023 over a scandal at the state ...

According to a Cabinet paper released by Willis, the bank’s operational spending shot up from $158m in 2023/24 to $200m in 2024/25 – an astonishing increase of $42m, a sum of money that as recently as ...

Double murderer Mark Lundy will be released from prison next month, despite holding firm to the position that he never killed his wife and daughter. Lundy has spent more than 23 years behind bars for ...

A teen who took part in a violent and unprovoked street attack, king hitting one of his victims, has narrowly avoided jail after a judge ruled it would not be the “just” outcome. So this was not a ...

After almost a year and a half, in which time the party has managed to go to court, use the rarely used waka jumping law and deal with another candidate selection headache, the Green Party has finally ...

Green MP Tamatha Paul has launched a fundraising campaign for a group wanting to “defund the police” and close the court system. Paul has been attracting attention over recent weeks for her comments ...

Local authority rates and payments increased 12.2 percent in the 12 months to the March 2025 quarter (14 percent contribution to the 2.5 percent increase). Rates are captured once a year in the ...