When the Government announced yesterday that it wants to have a binding referendum on a four-year parliamentary term here in New Zealand, I was all for it. I've been all for it for a while now.

I reckon most of us, when we fill out the census papers, assume that the information we’re providing won’t end up in the wrong hands. I know there are some people who don't feel like that.

John R. MacDonald, 87, of Phoenix AZ, formerly of Newton, MA, son of the late Ronald David and Margaret (MacNeil) MacDonald of Newton, MA, passed away on Feb 16, 2025. He leaves behind his ...

Adrian Orr. Champion of the people. Well, that might be going a bit too far. But the Reserve Bank Governor was speaking my language when he says that dropping the Official Cash Rate, like he did ...

Spend up large. That’s my message to the Government. Go large, spend up big and drag our military into the 21st century. That’s not me having a go at the military, by the way. Anyone reading ...

Who would want to be Andrew Bayly today? The disgraced, now former minister, resigned because he touched a staff member during what he’s describing as an “animated discussion”. And now his ...

Do you know why the Government has failed to meet all of its child poverty targets? The overarching reason I’m talking about here. Because this is really complex and there are all sorts of ...

I’m starting to wonder whether it was just a fluke that we managed to build things like the big hydro dams back in the day without them falling over. Without them falling apart. Cracking under ...

Already, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is looking ahead to whenever a ceasefire might happen in Ukraine and has said that, if or when it does, he’d be happy to send troops in to keep the ...

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Before that happened, more than 70,000 people signed a petition calling for Charities Services to strip the church of its tax-exempt status. I’ve had a look at the register today and the Destiny ...

A group of prominent Canadian historians is regrouping after the Toronto District School Board decided this week to move forward with removing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Egerton Ryerson ...