Carr, who ends his five-year tenure as the commission’s first chair on Sunday, was also given an opportunity for a parting message to policymakers by the select committee. “What my kids would say is I ...

Wood, a former Labour MP and Minister for Auckland, told councillors it was important that the union got to have a say in how a Time of Use Charge would look, as it has 150,000 members in the city and ...

This woke nonsense puts off companies from even tendering for work, and just means councils put up rates to pay for more staff to assess this crap. There's basically three things only a council should ...

This week, the Treasury barred representatives from the Council of Trade Unions and the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union from attending its restricted briefing for the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update ...

The GDP data is bad - very bad. The economy has shrunk in the last two quarters. The question is why. There are two broad arguments. They are: This is due to the austerity regime of Nicola Willis and ...

My 2024 predictions were here. How did I do. The three parties of Government will outpoll the three parties of opposition in at least 90% of public polls in 2024. Was around 80% only so 0/1 The 2024 ...

A guest post by a reader: Most of us have by now no doubt seen the start of an interview with David Seymour on TV One Breakfast where he took the host to task for the manner in which the discussion ...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the House of Commons should be recalled now that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is vowing to bring forward a motion of non-confidence to take down the Liberal ...

Charity regulators have moved to deregister high-profile social services provider Waipareira, concluding a long-running investigation into its funding of chief executive John Tamihere’s political ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon will not attend the national Waitangi Day events at Waitangi next year, he has confirmed. His confirmation followed a letter from Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti organisers on ...

Labour’s finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds has replaced a graph that incorrectly stated the Ardern-Hipkins Government reduced New Zealand’s debt levels by about $31 billion in its second term. … In ...

The government wants to divide New Zealand along ethnic and economic lines, Chris Hipkins says, and he wants to be the leader who brings it together. Is he serious? He led a Government that tried to ...