Labour's Willie Jackson has taken aim at the coalition government for what he called "taking Aotearoa down a path of division and hate." It is a trick in politics to accuse your opponent of what you ...

The Government set the public service a target of eliminating $400 million in operating expenditure on contractors and consultants by 2024/25. In 2023/24 savings of $274 million were achieved. This ...

Staff at a charitable trust working with Northland’s most vulnerable kids held crying families as they told them their services were under threat. Stand Tū Māia plans to take Oranga Tamariki to court ...

A district court judge and her reality TV star partner have apologised for “verbally attacking” Winston Peters, Casey Costello and other New Zealand First members at a Christmas party. Chief Judge ...

Victoria's Opposition Leader John Pesutto has lost a defamation case against former Liberal partyroom colleague Moira Deeming. Ms Deeming brought the lawsuit against Mr Pesutto, alleging the Victorian ...

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is finished - either this week, or at the election. Any tiny chance of victory has disappeared with the dramatic resignation of not just any Cabinet Minister, but his Deputy ...

The House has just passed the first reading of the Gene Technology Bill. Judith Collins said: Our current regulations for genetically modified organisms are some of the most backward looking in the ...

A man who died of a gunshot wound on the Coromandel Peninsula on Friday has been described as a "loveable ratbag" and father of five boys. Kevin Mark Mabbott died about 2pm at Waiau on The 309 Road, ...

Facebook, Google and TikTok will be forced to fund Australian journalism regardless of whether they host it under a federal government plan to impose a new tax to push the tech platforms to make ...

I'd rather the Government doesn't own any banks (except the Reserve Bank) but as it does own Kiwibank, I'm wondering if it should be mandated to provide banking facilities to customers who can't get ...

Voting is now open for the 2024 Kiwiblog Awards. Finalists were selected based on the number of nominations they received. The contest for National MP of the Year is between Simeon Brown for his ...

This graphic from Nate Silver is fascinating. Up until 2010, Democrats were mainly seen as representing the working class, but now they are mainly seen as standing for marginalised groups and only 11% ...