A video of convicted murderer Scott Watson attacking another prisoner was played to the Parole Board as it met to decide if he should be released from jail after 27 years. In the video, several ...

Today we celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi - a day which should be called Emancipation Day. For on the 6th of February 1840, slavery became illegal in New Zealand. The granting of Britis ...

Radio NZ reports: 2026 is a "Goldilocks" year for first-home buyers, with lower interest rates, lots of houses to choose from and banks willing to lend to people with small deposits, market ...

Wellington Deputy Mayor got in a Twitter exchange and referred to another user as a "nonce". The person complained to WCC that this was a breach of the code of conduct, as nonce is a term used to call ...

On Tuesday The Post published an op ed from me, arguing that the collapse of the rules based order meant that New Zealand should become the seventh state of Australia. I say: Since World War II there ...

More than 36,500 Iranians were allegedly killed during a brutal, two-day crackdown against anti-regime protesters, the deadliest in the history of the Islamic Republic, according to a new report. The ...

IDEA reports on a recent decision from the Supreme Court of Fiji with regards to the 2013 constitution of Fiji. They had to decide whether the 2013 or 1997 constitution of Fiji was valid, and as ...

Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith and the Electoral Commission are in open disagreement over the date they will be able to deliver full election results, following Goldsmith’s controversial law aimed at ...

Ani O'Brien has a long and excellent piece on the failure of organ donation reform. The TLDR version is: Strategy released in 2017 Law change passed in 2019 Funding of $3 million a year for ...

If you needed any more proof that Police Professional Conduct (i.e. the sub-department within the Police which deals with complaints about police misconduct) is biased and will not discipline its own ...

People tend to think being anxious about going to school (even "school aversion") is a new phenomenon. It isn't but is does appear to be heightened at present. I am a life long social-phobe and found ...

I first wrote a doom–laden article for the Economist about carbon dioxide emissions trapping heat in the air in 1987, nearly 40 years ago. I soon realised the effect was real but the alarm was ...