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Today is the first Member's Day of the new year, and its going to be an exciting one. After the third reading of Ruth Dyson's Rates ...

In 2014 the UK parliament passed the Data Retention and Investigatory Powers Act 2014 , requiring ISPs and telcos to retain customer phone a...

The Law Commission and Ministry of Justice have released their joint Review of the Search & Surveillance Act 2012 . This was meant to b...

On the ground in Afrin, it’s hard to know what Kurdish fighters really stand for Inside Afrin, the true victims of Turkey's invasion of...

Back in 2015, the Manawatu-Whanganui Regional Council (AKA Horizons) was caught colluding with farmers to enable them to evade regional pla...

People Against Prisons Aotearoa has published an in-depth report on the use of solitary confinement in New Zealand prisons , and are calling...

How are human rights enforced in New Zealand? For a lot of them, such as the right not be discriminated against, or the right to privacy, it...

On the front line it seems as if Syria’s war against Islamists is far from over

An article in The Spinoff yesterday accused the New Zealand Taxpayer's Union - a National Party front group featured in Dirty Politics ...

The government today announced some employment relations reforms, including the restoration of meal breaks and the right to collective barga...

Cape Town, a city of 4 million people, is about to run out of water and turn off its municipal supply . They've been in drought since 20...

Last year, Open Government Minister Clare Curran was publicily shamed in the House over her apparent refusal of an OIA request. The Opposit...

The trade deal formerly known as the TPPA will be signed by its remaining parties in March . Apparently, there have been some more changes -...

The next Kurdish war is on the horizon – Turkey and Syria will never allow it to create a mini-state Trump will not bring Middle East peace...

Back in 2016, the government adopted its second national action plan under the Open Government Partnership, committing to seven specific ac...

Over the past few years, the Official Information Act has been a vital tool in exposing our appalling fisheries management regime and the wa...

The Asia New Zealand Foundation is a charitable trust established by the government. All members of the trust are appointed by the Minister...

Why are doctors in the Middle East cosying up to foreign armies? Jared Kushner’s connection to an Israeli business goes without scrutiny – ...

Last year, the Spanish government in Madrid dissolved Catalanoia's regional government and forced regional elections in the hope of ove...

The Mosquito is a sound system that emits a deafening whine at a frequency older people cannot hear. It is explicitly used to deny access t...