Nicola Willis and Paul Goldsmith have announced the following: A target to return the ratio of public servants to the population of 1.0%, meaning a target of 55,000 by 2029 A sinking lid on operating ...
News the Israeli embassy is moving to a new Wellington location, with some tenants currently unaware, is drawing parallels to “human shield” allegations made against Hamas. The Israeli Embassy is on ...
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Luxon’s speech

The PM gave a very significant speech recently. Matthew Hooton who is often fiercely critical of Luxon said it was "the most honest, realistic and substantive prime ministerial statement since the era ...
Fees free tertiary education a central policy for Jacinda Ardern and Chris Hipkins. They promised in 2017, that it would boost tertiary participation, especially for those from poorer families, who ...
The Green Party wants the government to force power companies to cap power bill increases at the the rate of inflation. Power prices are going up because we have a shortage of supply. So the geniuses ...
My view is that IF the treaty is a document that unites us as one people, it can stay. Current interpretation is that it permanently divides us by race and therefore should be either amended ...
Sir Kenneth Keith has died aged 88. He was one of the great NZ jurists - the NZ Supreme Court, the International Court of Justice, the Privy Council. I got to know him slightly when I worked at the NZ ...
One of the most common questions I get asked by audiences is whether NZ First will go with National or Labour after the election. My response is that there is no reason to not take Winston at his word ...
Winston Peters announced that NZ First wants to go down the path of Karl Marx and nationalise the BNZ, basically because it was once owned by the Government around 40 years ago. The BNZ constitutes ...
A rightwing provocateur’s plan to register the “Free Palestine party” and use it to funnel votes to conservative parties in Victoria’s state election has renewed concern over the state’s voting system ...
The Government’s unprecedented contract with Z Energy for close to 90 million additional litres of diesel, equivalent to around nine days’ supply, has been signed, Finance Minister Nicola Willis and ...
A Reform government will not put any migrant detention facilities in any constituency with a Reform MP. Nor will we put them where Reform controls the council. And of the remaining areas, we will ...