Hard to imagine a more disturbing insight into the treatment of the vulnerable than the Health Ministry report on Te Roopu Taurima o Manukau. The […]
Don’t want to be unduly alarmist about this, but we seem to have an outlaw government on our hands – if by that we mean […]
The Budget lockup retains a symbolic value these days, but little more than that. This is the government’s best annual opportunity to bury its usual […]
This week has seen two examples of turkeys refusing to vote for an early Christmas – while busily denying the evident self interest involved. First, […]
Unfortunately, the buying and selling of ghost-written university essays has been part of academic culture for decades. In the mid 1980s for instance, to cite […]
Comes the time, comes the man. Aaron Gilmore has become the poster child for everything that is loathsome about politicians and the political process. However, […]
Abuse directed at anyone opposed to what you’re wanting to do. Repeated mis-representations of what you said, and did. Not to mention the flat denials […]
Remember when the creeping power of Big Government was being manifested only in …the energy efficiency regulations for household appliances? Back in 2008, that seemed […]
The threat posed to our marine and coastal environment by the Texas oil company, Anadarko
An excerpt from Alison McCulloch’s new book about the battle for abortion rights in New Zealand
Celebrating the career of film-maker, Les Blank
How standardised classroom tests are producing some frightening outcomes in the US
Iceland’s attempt to write a new Constitution hits an electoral headwind
What should we make of Jane Campion’s return to television? Also: should you be worried about Baz Luhrmann’s Great Gatsby? Is Godard great – and who was Jesus Franco?
In which we hear about the journalistic standard of accuracy and think it sounds like a fantastic idea.
Paying dues to the Piedmont style of blues
Practical sustainability, as a part of everyday life in Argentina
A visit to a country with striking similarities to New Zealand, but vastly different policies
The March 2013 Edition of Werewolf
Yesterday’s Anzac Day saw the usual strong turnout at dawn ceremonies, to mark an occasion that is already displacing Waitangi Day – if we can […]
Anyone looking for legacy traces of the late Margaret Thatcher in New Zealand politics will have found them in the government’s scare tactics – “a […]
As sure as night follows day, you could bet some financial analyst would see the death of the free market in the plans unveiled last […]
Since politics is so often about the perpetuation of privilege, we should all celebrate the times when Parliament gets something right. The passage of Louisa […]
It is hard to decide what is the most alarming aspect of Prime Minister John Key’s plans to expand the role of Big Brother. Or, […]
The Tauranga MP Simon Bridges – he’s also the Labour Minister and the Minister of Energy and Resources – is carving out quite a niche […]
Just how Prime Minister John Key thought that invoking the “proud history” of our 1950s Korean War contribution would help to minimize the current tensions […]
At this point, the Ian Fletcher affair risks getting lost in the‘angels on pinheads’ detail that fascinates the Beltway, and bores the pants off everyone […]
In our political system, which has few checks and balances – a single chamber Parliament, no written Constitution, a weak Bill of Rights etc – […]
Mum and Dad investors were supposed to be plain ordinary folks that the government was rewarding with the option of buying ..er, of re-buying a […]
This month’s Werewolf cover story is about the Kim Dotcom extradition case and is available here, but there’s an interesting footnote…This week, ABC television news […]
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