Meaning: once the public begins to take a hard look at the options before them, some of Labour’s preceding soft support will ebb away, since it is largely based on an anything-but -this attitude ...

One can only hope that the New Zealand diplomats and corporate leaders heading to Washington to beg for leniency on our 15% tariff rate do realise that paying Trump off with large amounts of ...

One of the whoppers told regularly by Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon is that National inherited a terrible, no good economy from Labour, with rampant inflation and sky high interest rates that ...

Luxon did protest too much on the weekend. Sure, the credulous party faithful were willing to believe him as he continued to lay the blame for the state of the economy on what Labour did, or didn’t do ...

While the retirement surge was anticipated, Dr Bradford says the more troubling trends lie in the intentions of younger and mid-career GPs. These include mid-career GPs considering early retirement ...

In the shadow of the Holocaust at the end of WWII, the world passed a raft of United Nations/Geneva conventions to ensure that states could “never again” inflict such horrors on a racially defined ...

Looking for consistency in all things is said to be the hallmark of a small mind. Duly noted, but the Luxon government’s stance on climate change does seem strikingly inconsistent. For starters, New ...

Reportedly, the moral revulsion being felt around the world at Israel’s actions in Gaza has induced 24 countries to sign a joint letter calling on Israel to cease its onslaught, and to“end now” the ...

Funny how “blow-out” gets so readily applied to cost escalation in the provision of public services (hospital rebuilds, the Cook Strait ferries) but when politicians get the figures wrong for their ...