Labour’s Ayesha Verrall says it's troubling Health NZ can't access documents, while an ex-union boss suggests it has something to hide

Willis says National to lower Govt spending below 30% of GDP from 33% now, not just to 30%; Labour capping spending at 33% GDP; Willis & Luxon talk up using budget space for tax cuts, vs lowering debt

Chlöe Swarbrick wants to take on corporate power, redistribute wealth and expand public ownership. But can the Greens build the mass political movement needed to make this happen? Since becoming co-...

The government's recipe for cutting thousands more public sector jobs demands using AI much more. RNZ looks through 16 documents that led up Nicola Willis's announcement in May of 8700 jobs to go and ...

GH on the predicaments of the West Indies

OPINION: Reflecting on the current Government’s track record on employment matters over the past term, it appears that the tail has truly wagged the dog.

Chlöe Swarbrick wants to take on corporate power, redistribute wealth and expand public ownership. But can the Greens build the mass political movement needed to make this happen? Since becoming co-...

Two police incidents in the South Island's Buller region are believed to be connected.

John Key’s speech to National faithful was ‘suicidal’, says NZ First leader.

National said it would empower the Commerce Commission, if re-elected, to forcibly separate the supermarket chains New World and Pak’n Save.

Emotional priorities often change as people grow older. Pauline Hanson’s latest remarks raise a more troubling question about what happens when grievance is repeatedly rewarded instead.

Rapper Macklemore claims Kraft rallied other venue owners against his participation in Ed Sheeran's US tour.

Finneas, Lukas Graham, Beoga and Aaron Rowe have left Ed Sheeran’s US tour.

On Saturday, I wrote a piece entitled What is labour was not a cost? It generated a lot of comments, including one noting that I had never written a glossary entry on capitalism, although I had one on...

A petition signed by 52,672 people opposing the Government’s proposed Treaty Principles Bill has been delivered to Parliament on horseback.

The party says the money will allow it to fight the next election on a "level playing field", while rivals have renewed calls for donations from individuals to be capped.

'We are heartbroken': Educators say top-down changes roll back decades of progress, disregard Waitangi Tribunal recommendations and strip teachers of professional agency. Hanna McCallum reports.

Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing

The man died in Auckland despite the efforts of a local business owner and passersby.

PL on politics, cricket and a man driven by conviction

AJ weighs in on self-determination

National has been warned “factual information must be able to be substantiated” after the party’s swing at Labour’s capital gains tax was deemed misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority.

The media appears to have woken up to the fact that there is a right-wing, profoundly fascist threat to stability within the UK. Events over the weekend in Dover and Portsmouth have achieved this outcome. A few people in black have been noticed. Rightly, politicians are condemning the actions of those...

A public health professor is backing the call for more drug funding, but says any cost-benefit analysis must include Pharmac's negotiating power.

Days after Brent Horsburgh died following a nine-hour wait at Waikato Hospital’s ED, another patient waited more than 27 hours to be seen. It comes amid mounting scrutiny of patient care at the hospit...

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