I wrote recently how the PM dislikes taking a stand on issues, until he sees how the land lies. That may have be a better approach before he came out guns blazing reprimanding the Israel Defence Force ...

The 119 individuals and families profiled are now collectively worth $102.1 billion – up from $95.55 billion last year. To put this in perspective, that’s more than 40% of the nation’s GDP ...

One powerful indicator of the government’s true intent with reigning in the way they spend taxpayer’s income is the size of the Public Sector workforce. For the second successive quarter the size of ...

While Māori business success is worth celebrating, the Crown’s quiet offloading of Treaty obligations onto non-Māori citizens is tilting the market—and it’s time we talked about it. ------------------ ...

On February 13, 2025, Hamit Coskun set fire to his copy of the Quran outside the Turkish embassy in London. Coskun—an atheist who fled persecution from the Turkish authorities in 2022—was there to ...

A research proposal on cosmic inflation from an acclaimed German quantum physicist is rejected because she did not address the relevance of her findings to “sex, gender, and diversity.” Could it be ...

Hard to imagine that Japan would (for example) have an immigration policy where native Japanese would become a minority in Japan within two generations.

First of all AUKUS is probably dead as far as NZ is concerned. Trump doesn't see allies, just cost centres. He will not see any benefit in the US sharing military technology with New Zealand. Hell, he ...

KiwiSaver is about to change again. The Budget announced an increase in the minimum employee contribution (from 3% to 4%) over three years and in the matching minimum contributions paid by employers.

The UN nuclear watchdog’s board of governors on Thursday (local time) formally found that Iran isn’t complying with its nuclear obligations for the first time in 20 years, a move that could lead to ...

Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has expanded his Fix Auckland campaign from one candidate to two with the addition of deputy Desley Simpson, now he is recruiting a team to gain influence on the council.