The track record of modern singers trying to create new Christmas songs proves that it is harder than it looks. Yet back in 1956, the Hepsters (and since then, whoever made this lovely video of their ...

This is why the disdain that Finance Minister Nicola Willis has expressed for the emissions reduction targets that New Zealand embraced in the Paris agreement on climate change is so unusual, and so ...

For many councils, the Luxon government’s plan to restrict the ability of local councils to increase rates to a range of between two and four per cent annually, is a recipe for : (b) increasing user ...

In line with the plans that the government unveiled this week to reform local government, the recently elected regional councils will be scrapped, and their roles will be handed over to mayors. Those ...

For months, the economic recovery has been said to be imminent, and the forecasters at the banks keep promoting that message, even though the former predictions of good times in 2025 have now been ...

Good to hear someone calling “bullshit” on Winston Peters, and on his claims to have saved the taxpayer $2.3 billion on the Cook Strait ferries. As RNZ’s Ingrid Hipkiss pointed out to Peters this ...

For gangs, the Misuse of Drugs Act (1975) has been one of the best recruiting tools they’ve ever had. Criminalisation of a raft of illicit drugs not only provide s them with a wildly lucrative black ...

In the wake of the IPCA report, it is easy to understand why the politicians have been so willing to endorse terms like “cover up” and “ corruption.” It is convenient to explain what went wrong in ...

So asset sales are back on the agenda, and will be dependent only on the coalition government getting re-elected next year. Yikes. Right wing governments are forever selling off the assets created by ...

First, some good news. Zohran Mamdani has won the mayoral race in New York and as the prophet Leonard Cohen once said, taking Manhattan is just the start. More than anything, Mamdani is providing ...