This week the NZ Herald reported that Mangere College was put under statutory management. While appointing a limited statutory manager for a school in NZ is not highly unusual - this is the first time ...

Andy Reid had been in Afghanistan for three months when the incident happened that would change his life forever. Out on a routine patrol in the Helmand Province, he stood on a Taliban improvised ...

NZ First scored 11.9% in the January 2026 Taxpayers' Union - Curia poll. This is a very high level of support for NZ First generally, but especially for them in Government. The last time NZ First ...

As almost everyone knows, Manage my Health was hacked by someone seeking a $60,000 ransom in return for not releasing the hacked files, which appear to be uploaded health documents. I don't criticise ...

Hipkins also ignores that Clark called a snap election in 2002, meaning the 2002 and 2005 election could not be held in November (or October). So if you exclude those you have November for 1999, 2008 ...

Nick Shirley has had over 135 million views of his video where he went around various Minnesota state funded daycare centres and found no pupils. It gave the visual element to the reporting around ...

A moving story at The Free Press about Mark Swidan who spent 12 years in a Chinese prison on trumped up charges. Basically totalitarian states arrest random US citizens from time top time to use as ...

Newsroom asked some pollsters for their predictions for 2026. Mine are below: Every poll (or almost every poll) will show that both National and Labour will need two partner parties to govern, not ...

Unfortunately those stories will get very little traffic because they are overseas but weather stories will fly because they are local. Now there is a fine line to tread in terms of how much coverage ...

January 20, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 20 January 2026 ...

At last count 10,000 5 to 13 year olds in NZ were not enrolled anywhere and no one was actively looking for them. Approx. 11,000 children are home-schooled. These children are not “truant” but it does ...

Several cases of potentially defamatory comments, breaches of privacy and unsupported assertions were found in Youth MPs’ draft speeches by officials tasked with reviewing them before delivery during ...