The EPA is responsible for various things including assessing new hazardous substances for import or manufacture for New Zealand. The majority of these are agrichemicals. There has been fairly vocal ...

Fox Varian had her breasts removed when she was 16 years old as treatment for her gender dysphoria. At 19 she stopped identifying as transgender and filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against her ...

I'm pleased to announce that Curia is a proud sponsor of the ANZ Ukraine Cooperation Forum. It is launching in March, and meeting in Lviv. bringing together leaders from defence, emergency services, ...

The Green Party’s strict new process for its party list is prompting turmoil within the membership as former candidates have been excluded from potentially becoming MPs. The changes have seen one cand ...

Laurie Johnston still can’t fathom how his daughter and two grandsons were shot by his son-in-law, Ben Timmins, just days after he was arrested over a family violence incident. It should never have ...

An interesting poll of 117,000 people in 101 countries on whether they support or oppose their being a World Parliament. They say 40% support it, 27% oppose and 33% undecided. The question design is ...

The BSA has done its annual poll of what words NZers find most offensive. I hadn't even heard the term nappy-head previously. Somewhat surprised it features highly hear as it is really a US term. Also ...

An interesting chart on favourability of institutions. Basically Democrats should stop attacking Amazon as most Americans love them. The net favourability, in order, is: US military +65% Amazon +64% G ...

The Government has introduced a bill to recognise that English is an offical language of New Zealand. Of course English has been a de facto official language of NZ since 1840. The fact the bill is in ...

A few months ago I founded a Facebook group called NZ Against Hamas to organise Kiwis who are interested in pro-Jewish advocacy and counterprotests against the anti-Israel movement in this country.

New Zealand is capitalising on global instability — including the so-called “Trump effect” — with hundreds of wealthy Americans seeking residency by investing billions in the country. Less than a year ...

Do you think the Treaty of Waitangi has too much, about the right amount, or too little influence over government decision making? Now this was asked in 2026, so is a reflection on the current ...