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Another coronial inquiry into a series of deaths from quad bikes, another call for better safety protection measures to be put in place: The coroner’s […]

It will not be until December, when the article on the Lombard case by retired judge Ted Thomas is finally published, that anyone one can […]

Is there any New Zealander who doesn’t like Kiwibank? From the outset, Kiwibank has introduced fresh competition into banking in this country, and – although […]

It seems to be a basic law of political thermodynamics that centre left parties can only ‘lurch’ or ‘swing’ when they begin to sound more […]

Not many winners in the NSA spy scandal, are there? Oh sure, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been reaping some political applause at home for […]

A curiously meandering interview on RNZ’s Business programme by Reserve Bank governor Graeme Wheeler, this morning. During it, Wheeler shed crocodile tears on behalf of […]

So only 62,000 investors have lined up to buy Meridian, even at the rock bottom price of $1.50 a share. That’s even after the process […]

According to Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce, Team New Zealand “is not a job for life” but it certainly seems the next best thing to […]

A lot of the time, policing is a difficult and unpleasant job and when its done well, the Police get little credit for doing it. […]

The defence that John Banks has been offering to the charges of electoral fraud – that he didn’t read the document he signed, and therefore […]

Leaving aside the tawdry details of Auckland mayor Len Brown’s extramarital affair, the oddest feature is the timing of the revelations. By Brown’s own account […]

It seems incredible that a tiny faction of the Republican opposition in the US Senate can hold to ransom the entire country – and the […]

The style of David Cunliffe’s speech to the Council of Trade Unions conference yesterday was almost as important as the content. Plainly, Labour now has […]

How is this for a ‘cart before the horse’ notion of democracy, as practiced by the Key government? From the NZ Herald this morning: [Prime […]

Surely, isn’t it time for the Republican Party to be designated as a terrorist organisation? Their current shutdown of the federal government has been bad […]