August 2012

Once again, when Parliament went into conscience vote mode last night on a contentious issue, the quality of debate markedly improved – as MPs briefly […]

When it comes to the Waitangi Tribunal ruling on water rights, Prime Minister John Key appears to be balancing midstream on two different logs that […]

Inequality is becoming ingrained in the culture. One of the more interesting ads on television is the long running one where a trio of All […]

Remember when the Law Commission was worried that young women were the prime targets of alcohol industry RTD alcopop advertising and promotion? Remember when the […]

Under its current operating rules, the New Zealand forces in Bamiyan have already been given authority by Cabinet to cross over into neighbouring regions such […]

The killing of three more New Zealand members of our Provincial Reconstruction Team by a roadside bomb in northern Bamiyan would seem to indicate that […]

As in so many international disputes, the key to the resolution of the Julian Assange asylum case is the United States. If the White House, […]

You don’t really have to be a theologian to know that if you’re truly sorry for doing something, repentance includes a commitment not to do […]

As expected, the MMP review proposal paper has come up with a trade-off between the two main voting thresholds. It suggests scrapping the one electorate […]

So the Olympics has come and gone amid the usual “These were the best Games ever” accolades that seem the automatic verdict issued every four […]

It has been quite a week for Labour, on three counts at least. First came the signs in the polls that the recent slide in […]

In the wake of the weekend’s deadly attack on New Zealand forces in Afghanistan, the interesting aspect of the political response has been the across-the-board […]

If anyone is still wondering what happened to the energies and the organising principles that drove the Occupy movement – or if they’re merely wanting […]