6PM - Midnight
I don't mind telling you that prior to yesterday's budget, I was kind of over it already. The question is whether this budget...
It's been hard to miss the publicity that's been circulating on-screen, and in radio and print media around the Road to Zero...
The Piopio home invasion case. I'll be honest, my initial reaction to the not-guilty verdict was that I struggled to contain...
I’m beginning to wonder whether the Government may have made a rod for its own back over the fuel tax cuts. If you’ll remember,...
It's been an interesting week, hasn't it? But a bit of a bad week for the government on one of its core values. Of course,...
The Wellbeing Budget is a lie. In considering the pros and cons of the budget – spare a thought for those who are paying...
The question is, did anyone get up this morning thinking ‘hurrah, it’s Labour Day’? Or is this anniversary largely irrelevant...
As I opened my newsfeed today, I was greeted with yet another slowing unfolding tragedy. The slow and inexorable death of...
New Zealand politics has to transcend the one-man wrecking ball that is Jami-Lee Ross. The latest revelations contained in...
It’s been over a decade since the anti-smacking legislation came into force, removing the reasonable force defence to parents...
I started to draft an editorial about the National Party situation last night, and I thought I had finished it, polished...
As we head to the weekend and much of New Zealand head to sports fields around the country, we do so in the knowledge that...
I’ve been in two minds as to whether to express an opinion or make comment about the horrendous car crash which resulted...
What’s in a name? “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. Shakespeare certainly knew what he...
The spotlight has been tightening lately around the issue of government reform of bail laws. This always going to be a tricky...
While the news coverage around the birth of the Jacinda Ardern’s baby might be seen by some to be a little over the top,...
