Roger Bridge, a much loved, and long-serving member of the National Party and former chair of its Canterbury West Coast region, has died. Bridge was widely respected within party circles for his ...

Peters strongly rejected Hipkins’ assertion that he held a record for being the worst behaved or most suspended MP. “Chris Hipkins says a lot of things. But he is a sausage eater who doesn’t know what ...

Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivered New Zealand’s 2025 Budget on Thursday in a vivid blue pencil dress. The distinctive outfit is believed to be the Nouvelle Sculpt Stretch Crepe Dress, from ...

I asked ChatGPT when each US Supreme Court Justice is expected to die based on standard demographic data. Most will probably exceed the average as they would have above average access to healthcare.

An interesting poll in the UK on transgender issues. In terms of net agreement with the UK Supreme Court decision that women-only spaces can exclude trans women, the results were: All voters +41% ...

An economist from New Zealand’s largest bank said the Labour Government went on a “debt-funded spending spree”, leaving a fiscal mess for the current Government to clean up. ANZ economist Miles ...

At the same time, RNZ will have its budget cut by $18m over four years - $4.6m a year - around 7 percent of its current $67m allocation. This means they will still be getting $62 million a year. In ...

During her Budget presentation, Willis said that pay equity costs in 2020 were initially expected to reach $3.7b but there had since been a “blowout” with costs rising steeply, especially due to ...

Andrew Little has promised to act on what Wellingtonians want: saving Begonia House and Khandallah Pool and complete the Karori Event Centre. However, the Wellington mayoral candidate did not make any ...

I suspect the usual suspects will call the Budget just released an austerity budget. They are lying. Austerity has a specific meaning. It is when you cut overall expenditure. It doesn't mean they have ...

I am sure readers will recall how people said it would be terrible if the TPM co-leaders suspension meant they couldn't attend the Budget debate. So the Government decided to delay the debate on their ...

There is definitely a double standard here. We even have an excellent example to highlight it. In 2021 an Auckland Transport manager posted a message to a Facebook group cautioning against a bill that ...