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It isn’t often that we see how the United States feels when it sees itself on the receiving end of a secretive international treaty process […]

Well, what an exciting weekend it must have been for the nation’s media. After a 2012 full, thus far, of gaffes, resignations, dodgy dealings at […]

Alexander Cockburn would probably be amused and annoyed that his death in Germany at the weekend will attract a mere fraction of the accolades heaped […]

So the brake pads on every single one of the 500 freight wagons delivered to KiwiRail by its favoured Chinese supplier have had to be […]

It seems a simple enough concept; counselling is meant to help victims to recover from their experience. The conditions for getting access to counselling are […]

In this time of fiscal austerity, some people are being asked to be more austere than others. Thus, the news on RNZ this morning that […]

The Maori Party’s relationship with National is looking more and more like that of a battered spouse, a pitiable creature who will swallow any indignity […]

So KiwiRail is about to cut up to 220 jobs by October, and SOE Minister Tony Ryall has refused to front up to explain what […]

Public private partnerships (PPPs) are still being envisaged by the Key government’s as its favoured method for financing new schools, motorways etc, but the experience […]

Television news is notorious for having no memory, and little room for history or context. The average news bulletin consists of a series of talking […]

During the past month, how many people working in the Parliamentary precinct might have engaged in recreational drug use that impaired their performance on the […]

A good morning for the rule of law. The High Court here finds the search of Kim Dotcom’s house to have been illegal and ditto […]

Imagine this wacky, unbelievable scenario. Prime Minister John Key announces that for too long, too many people earning over $100,000 have been paying too little […]

The chances of achieving culture change at the Accident Compansation Corporation would seem to be almost zero if those in charge of the organisation cannot […]

So New Zealand has pledged up to $4 billion in repayable loans to the International Monetary Fund as our contribution to a stabilization fund to […]

By all measures, the Greek election result was a relatively good outcome for the global economy, in that pro-austerity parties now seem able to form […]

The leaked document on the US Public Citizen website confirm the worst fears about the Trans Pacific Partnership talks. The leaked text, and Public Citizen’s […]

The non re-appointment of Accident Compensation Corporation chairman John Judge falls a long, long way short of what will be required to effect a culture […]

The public debate on raising the entitlement age of National Superannuation is still tending to be couched in terms of affordability and generational fairness. Can […]

The government backdown on class sizes is looking like one of those non-apologies where people say they’re sorry because of how you’ve reacted, rather than […]

The proposals by the Brazilian firm Petrobras for exploratory oil and gas drilling off East Cape are still controversial. Yet as New Zealand heads towards […]

Is the Assad regime better or worse than what is likely to follow in its wake? Given the carnage in Iraq and the drift towards […]

Article – Gordon Campbell Cartoon by Martin Doyle The Budget changes in education are following a pattern, which seems to have been learned at the […]

Over the course of the past week, the news bulletins have featured a series of nightmare events – the fire in Doha, the murdered hitchhiker […]

It may be called “National” Superannuation, but the relationship between the National Party and retirement income has rarely been a happy one, over the last […]

Every couple of years, a disturbing report is released into the standards of care for the elderly in this country. At quick count we had […]

It wasn’t as if expectations were sky high, exactly. Chances are, it was always more likely that we’d be seeing Bigfoot rampage through the Beehive […]

The decision to stand down Labour MP Shane Jones pending the Auditor-General’s inquiry into his 2008 decision – when Jones was associate Immigration Minister – […]

A week can, in fact, be a short time in politics – and the beginning of Budget week was probably as good a time as […]

Evidently, Breakfast TV is now to be considered an official arm of government. It happened like this: on 10 May, the government formally announced its […]