Labour leader Chris Hipkins vowed to scrap the requirement for primary schools to spend at least an hour a day teaching reading, writing and maths.

Opportunity have published their five bottom lines for any coalition, and they confirm that they are a party of the left. Their five bottom lines would fit perfectly in a Green Party manifesto.

NZ has had a purely online passport application process for (off memory) well over a decade. I've often raved about how good it is, and also how quick it is. I got my latest passport three working ...

Jeffrey Archer has died aged 86. He was one of my all time favourite authors. I literally purchased every one of his novels, and all his short stories collections. Kane and Abel is probably my ...

Since the 1880s, a 37-acre site in the leafy Auckland suburb of Epsom was used to train teachers. Now Epsom MP and Act Leader David Seymour wants the site, empty since the last of the University of ...

Thanks to Ruth Richardson, Governments can no longer hide the state of the accounts from the electorate, The pre-election fiscal and economic update is mandatory. The 2026 one is here. And for the ...

Labour's so called fiscal plan is a fraud. First here is what Barbara Edmonds said on Newstalk ZB: Well, for example, a choice that we would not make is $300 million for a tobacco excise tax cut. Okay ...

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A couple of weeks ago, six parents launched The Parents Alliance, a new group to be a voice for parents in the education system. We already have over 3,300 supporters signed up, which is amazing. But ...

The more I hear and read about the attitude of the Public Service towards government policies; the more I am convinced of the need for all senior management staff, to have their employment put on ...

A protection order was supposed to keep a woman safe. Instead, a judge said it proved “no better than a piece of soiled toilet paper” as her partner hunted her down, beat her, threatened her life and ...

I am a big fan of polling averages and simulations. In fact I always say don't pick just one poll, but look at the average, and the trend over time. So I was delighted when the Herald did Herald-Motu ...