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Mt Roskill is having a by-election on saturday, and while Labour's Michael Wood is expected to win, he's not a certainty. But the Na...

Today is a member's day, unless the government bumps it for urgency. Assuming that doesn't happen, we'll see the third reading o...

Since the US election there have been a distressing series of reports of hate crimes against immigrants, African-Americans, and Muslims from...

Why do we need a public register of the beneficial ownership of companies and trusts? Just look at what the UK one has exposed so far : On ...

Last year, driven by panic around cyber-harassment, the government passed the Harmful Digital Communications Act . Among other things, the A...

Another school has been caught torturing autistic children : Claims that staff at a Dunedin special needs school hit, sat on and force-fed ...

What is it with the police interfering in politics? First there was their attempts to intimidate people protesting against US ship visits, t...

It turns out that the Scottish Parliament may have the legal power to block Brexit : Not many people are familiar with section 2 of the Sco...

Currently we're seeing unprecedented weather in the arctic, with air temperatures 20 degrees above normal delaying the usual winter ice ...

Last night the government introduced a new Customs and Excise Bill to Parliament. The bill would replace the Customs and Excise Act 1996 a...

Tougher tactics would have ended Syrian war, claims the country's top intelligence general

That's what John Key thinks of equality around the Cabinet table : Prime Minister John Key says the idea of promising a gender-balanced...

America once turned its back on Anne Frank, just as Donald Trump rejects Muslim refugees today

One of the first things National did after being elected was implement targets for A&E waiting times. Seven years later, and it turns ou...

What does National's "three strikes" policy look like in practice? Seven year sentences for bottom-pinching : A man who grabb...

Over on the NZ Constitution site, Morgan Godfrey nails what the real "symbolism" of the monarchy is: inherited wealth and power : ...

US President-elect Donald Trump has made it clear that he doesn't believe in climate change , claiming that it was "created by and ...

Last year, the government tried to get equal pay off the political agenda by establishing a Joint Working Group on Pay Equity. Unfortunately...

The Independent today has an interesting piece about Sweden and its culture of working less . Opening by pointing out that the Swedes regar...

In August 2014, Fijian police arrested Vilikesa Soko in connection with a robbery. They then beat and raped him to death . Yesterday, eight ...