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This time last week we were all beginning what will for most of us be the most weird, if not difficult, period of our lives;...
New Zealand's becoming a nation of narks and it has the blessing of our leaders. The cops set up an online dob in system...
Living in a bubble usually means you are content with your own world, you are impervious and unaffected by what is outside...
There is no place for politics in the ghastly situation facing the country. Unfortunately with an election six months away,...
COMMENT: Parliament by remote control. That's the prospect facing politicians as they today vote for what they call a "sessional...
COMMENT: It wasn't a mini Budget. it was a mega Budget. Four per cent of GDP in one fell swoop. It's $12 billion that we...
COMMENT: There were a couple of things that were telling about what was the most dramatic announcement of any Government...
COMMENT: Shane Jones has likened himself to a bowhead whale with a powerful blowhole that's had its say for a while and is...
COMMENT: Jacinda Ardern has in the past invited us to read between the lines, so with prime ministerial permission it was...
It was like a wet sauna. They stood in the sun for hours in the 100-year-old, dirt-poor squatter village, waiting for the...
It'll be all pomp and ceremony in the Fijian capital today as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern pays her first official visit...
COMMENT: Surely this came from a man who was muzzled against his will, from a person who blew the whistle that's now rendered...
COMMENT: If there's one thing Winston Peters loves, it's music - which is probably why his old crooner mate John Rowles got...
COMMENT: It was a hand on heart moment as butter-wouldn't-melt-in-her-mouth Paula Bennett told us the sort of behaviour that...
COMMENT: Jim Bolger said in the early 1990s "bugger the pollsters" when the man who's being buried today, Mike Moore, almost...
COMMENT: Inwardly Winston Peters would have been as furious as the stamping, face-pulling warriors confronting him. The New...
Simon Bridges has taken the biggest punt of his career - and his attempt to kneecap New Zealand First by refusing to work...
For the Government is should have been a day of celebration. They'd been stuck to the tarseal for the past two and a half...
Parliament's Speaker Trevor Mallard is being sued following his claim last year that a rapist was working at Parliament. A...
COMMENT: If you've ever wondered why the turnout for local body elections is so low, wonder no longer. City councils are...
COMMENT: Tomorrow the blue blazers of the Ratana brass band will be dusted off, the euphoniums and trombones will glitter...
COMMENT: Jacinda Ardern's got to start thinking dirty this year, as in doing electorate deals that is. Since MMP came into...
UK correspondent Enda Brady talks to Larry Williams about the UK government introducing new anti-terror legislation.
COMMENT: It's known as the Hyefu, or the Half Yearly Economic and Financial Update, pronounced Hi-foo. Watching Grant Robertson...
