No Right Turn

Argentina's Senate has voted to legalise same-sex marriage , making Argentina the first country in South America to affirm full equality...

As seen in the recent case of Pete Bethune, one of the basic expectations of government is that they will help us out if we get into legal t...

OK, so we all know that Big Tobacco is evil; their long denial that they were effectively selling a slow death by cancer shows that. But th...

In the wake of Tuesday's incident in which two police officers were shot and a police dog killed, police have been pushing for greater a...

Last night's Campbell Live [video] saw one of the most disingenuous performances from a Minister I have seen in a long time, with Polic...

Earlier in the year, a British judge serving on the Tongan Supreme Court caused outrage by imposing a sentence of flogging - the first time...

Interest seems to be growing in Rahui Katene's bill to remove GST from healthy food. There's a strong empirical case for the move ,...

The French National Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to ban the burqa . There are all sorts of reasons to criticise the bill - I'd sta...

The Fifth Labour Government saw a gradual erosion of NeoLiberalism, with an end to privatisation, improvements in worker's rights and so...

So, police have responded to yesterday's incident, in which two police officers were shot and a police dog killed, with an immediate mov...

The Afforestation Grant Scheme is one of the few success stories of New Zealand's climate change policy. It basically pays people to p...

Not content with expelling the Australian ambassador, Fijian dictator Voreqe Bainimarama is now threatening to cancel elections : Bainimar...

Yesterday the Melanesian Spearhead Group , a regional trade and political forum parallel, cancelled its planned leadership summit in Fiji o...

Or at least that seems to be the subtext of Corrections Minister Judith Collins' proud announcement that a new prison will bring $1.2 bi...

Last week, in a wretched backdown to the racists, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard pushed the idea of restarting John Howard's ...

There was an interesting article (offline) in The Press on Saturday on the development of a Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) for New Zealan...

I've had a lot of bad OIA experiences with the police. Quite apart from the vaguely sinister phone call I got from them once in respon...

CNN was wrong about Ayatollah Fadlallah

The Herald reports this morning that some list MPs are not maintaining electorate offices : Seven list MPs are receiving almost $41,000 ea...

On New Years Day 2009, Oakland transit officer Johannes Mehserle executed Oscar Grant . Grant had been removed from a train, arrested, and ...