Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Sales on Anzac Day Morning, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Christmas Day) Amendment Bill by Kieran McAnulty. This is a rare excellent bill from a Labour MP that would ...

That commits the Cooks to consult with China before it takes part in any bilateral or multilateral international meetings. And in a requirement that is raising eyebrows the action plan commits the two ...

A group of 109 never-lived-in new homes in Auckland and Wellington are for sale from the Crown, which was contracted to buy them from private developers, who failed to sell their stock in a tough ...

Jacinda entered politics to end child poverty. One thing she did (which was good) was to ensure we have annual data to monitor it. There are nine different measures of child poverty. Six of them don't ...

The reaction to my last Kiwiblog post on the IPCA seems to have been generally positive, which is nice. There were a couple of recurring themes in the comments, however, which need clarification. The ...

I analyse the German election results, where AFD got its support from, and predict that they will be the largest party in the Bundestag after the next election.

I, like many, focused on the report by the Public Service Commissioner Inquiry when it was released. I've only now had time to go through the seperate report to Stats NZ into the misuse of census data ...

Andrew Bayly will stand down as a Government minister after an “animated discussion” with a staffer, during which he “placed a hand on their upper arm, which was inappropriate”. Prime Minister Christo ...

Labour’s finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds has floated the idea of setting an expectation that the large gentailers reinvest dividends into new generation in a bid to ensure enough new electricity ...

This image from The Facts is very powerful. It shows how much of an outlier the result at Manurewa Marae was. Now maybe it is just a coincidence, and that everyone who voted there would have voted the ...

An Adelaide mother who stormed a private school and threatened to “slit” the throat of a student who allegedly bullied her daughter has been forced to face court. On February 3 the 31-year-old mother ...

Last week I posted re the need to significantly improve education for Maori young people: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2025/02/more_detail_on_the_need_for_huge ...