COMMENT: It's known as the Hyefu, or the Half Yearly Economic and Financial Update, pronounced Hi-foo. Watching Grant Robertson...
COMMENT: Minister of Police Stuart Nash got one thing right when he was reflecting on the awful events on White Island. Nash...
COMMENT: The New Zealand First gun is locked and loaded with the target fixed: Northport near Whangarei. However the year...
COMMENT: Those of you who are partial to the odd joint would do well to avoid a roll-up with Simon Bridges. The National...
COMMENT: Lock your doors, check the safety of your families and keep an eye on your bank account, the gangs are on the rampage. Well...
COMMENT: We're doing this, the sign behind Jacinda Ardern proclaimed as she filled the Labour Party faithful with Christmas...
COMMENT: Drunkenness isn't usually a defence for anything and neither should it be. Many of us have been there, but fortunately...
COMMENT: Here's an idea. Instead of hiking the cost of domestic waste disposal at the country's landfills, as this no-new-tax...
COMMENT: We've heard it all before - smash the gangs, dismantle their fortresses, ban the patches -and we'll no doubt hear...
COMMENT: We've all done it - tracked down the troll. The anonymity of the internet turns some people into keyboard warriors...
COMMENT: John Key made an art form of it, mincing down catwalks, falling off a stage, appearing on shock jock radio shows...
COMMENT: Market forces rule, they dictate prices in most things we transact. But that will no longer be the case next year...
COMMENT Fortunately it's rare but on the odd occasion those of us in the media become part of the story. That happened as...
There's no more thankless job in Government than that of the Immigration Minister. It's thankless because Immigration New...
COMMENT How sad. The Aging Politicians Enjoying Cocktails, or Apec leaders, won't get to clink their glasses in Chile's capital...
One of my old mates used to register his car in his German Shepherd Bruno's name. It meant that anytime he got a ticket it...
COMMENT: It's the seemingly little things in life that can become the most frustrating. Banks are the easy whipping boys...
COMMENT: The New Zealand First Government, for that's what it really is, has done a couple of things this week that Labour's...
COMMENT: The global mining giant Rio Tinto coughs and this country's power companies catch a $2 billion cold. That's the...
COMMENT: Where was Iain Lees-Galloway when he was needed? He surely has the mechanism to deal with the return of Isis fighter...
COMMENT: The National Party has called Parliament Speaker Trevor Mallard's bluff. Responding to a Labour MP's complaint about...
COMMENT: Just who is in charge in the Beehive - is it the pen pushers or the politicians? If you think the answer's obvious...
COMMENT: Governments, since coalitions were forced on us 23 years ago, are a bit like - and just as scary as - the Fair Isle...
COMMENT: It's an area where fools rush in where angels fear to tread - because no matter which way you come down on the climate...
