The incumbent Te Pāti Māori MP holds a strong electorate lead.

Election campaigning is now in full swing. We’ve previously reported on the (unwise)

More than 100,000 have enrolled to vote from abroad in the November poll, and many are unhappy with how things look back home

The last general practitioner of a clinic for 4500 patients in Horowhenua has resigned.

In a crowded Union Hall at the Otago University Students’ Association Leaders Debate on Wednesday 11 August, Opportunity deputy leader Daniel Eb made a compelling case for the party’s recent rise in t...

Emergency department doctors and nurses across New Zealand describe conditions they say are unsafe

The massacre at Al Noor mosque in 2019 was, for many New Zealanders, their first close encounter with violent right-wing extremism. The Parliament Occupation of 2022, in turn, revealed the breadth and...

Partial refund to be issued after several errors were found in a report into a department’s compliance framework

Whether scrolling through a news website or a social media feed, you’re likely to encounter a variety of little windows into far-right and fascist activity, and of individual and collective efforts to...

In July 2026, prime minister of India Narendra Modi stepped onto the red carpet at Auckland’s Government House to the ceremonial embrace of New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon and other corpo...

Thousands of pensioners and veterans lost their Winter Energy Payment this winter after an error in a law passed under urgency last year, The Post can reveal today.

A senior figure in New Zealand First’s youth wing has links to neo-Nazi groups and online accounts praising Adolf Hitler, an investigation by The Press has found.

Dunedin students unite to protest end of fees free scheme

Socialist and general books for sale at everything-must-go prices, to support the future Socialist Library at Trades Hall

A Crisis in Achievement or a Crisis in Society? Is education in crisis? It certainly seems so. Those of us who are working in schools have had to deal with the cavalcade of changes. That includes curr...

Why are New Zealand power prices so high? It’s not all about lines charges, Labour’s oil and gas ban or the cost of renewable energy.

Under new laws, immigration officers will be able to demand identification from suspected overstayers at their homes and workplaces. These out-of-hours compliance visits harken back to policies of the...

The most brutal right-wing government this country has seen since the 1990s is in power. The opposition is led by Chris Hipkins, the spineless neoliberal Labour Party leader promising to be a “continu...

How should the Left understand racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism? And how do these categories relate to class? Some view the problem as ideological: the ruling class uses bigotry as...

The Foreign Affairs Minister has clashed with protesters over the government's stance on Palestine, during a hearing at Parliament.

Both Iran and the US can walk away from the memorandum of understanding they are set to sign on Friday, a senior US official says.

Health Minister Simeon Brown has replaced the leadership of the Medical Council, saying the regulator has become distracted by politics and ideological issues.

Fourteen staff members at Ngā Wai Ngāro have been forced off work after being assaulted by patients.

Are you a “blue-collar hard-working Kiwi” or a “weirdo with purple hair?” New Zealand First, Winston Peters claimed in his March State of the Nation speech, is the only party that “understands what a ...

No current minister managed to answer WPQs on time on average across 2025.

Foreign Minister Winston Peters says he thinks the war in Iran will end sooner than people are expecting or thinking.

Artificial intelligence is expected to step in to save the depleted public sector, but NZ has few rules on how to use it. Fox Meyer reports.

Historical Materialism is a theory of history, a way of understanding the world. It is the fundamental underpinning of Marxist analysis. As the name suggests, this is a “materialist” framework: it sta...

This piece is one in a series of profiles of electoral parties in the lead up to the 2026 General Election. Just as Wiremu Tamihana was declared “Kingmaker” in the 1850s, “Old Racist Uncle” Winston Pe...

The working class of Aotearoa has been faced with attacks on all sides by a hostile reactionary government. Living standards are slipping as unemployment rises, wages fall behind, and public services ...