Over the last 30 years, state sectors of Western democracies have expanded and senior level state employment, with its high pay, security and access to the levers of power became a magnet for the ...

The Putin-Trump proposed peace deal for Ukraine is so horribly bad that it makes Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement with Hitler look visionary. I will put aside the merely terrible aspects such as ...

The US Government has announced they will allow 50 year mortgages, to try and help aspiring home owners. A 50 year mortgage is a terrible idea. It means people are going to be paying off a mortgage ...

While political affiliation makes people more biased towards speakers who share their views, it affects their overall willingness to let speakers speak, regardless of ideology, very little. But ...

Stuff has details of the transport plan by the Government for Wellington. It is brilliant. The noisy people against are a small minority. Many polls have shown strong support for increasing the ...

November 20, 2025 8:00am by Kokila PatelGeneral Debate 20 November 2025 ...

This is a heads up that from next month, I am going to make a change to assumptions about electorate seats for any NZ political polls by Curia. This post explains why. Up until the end of 2024, Curia ...

Tourism New Zealand is spending $6.3 million to bring the Michelin Guide – the world’s most famous restaurant ranking system – to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Inspectors have ...

Act is that a party leader needs the support of two thirds of their MPs to expel an MP from Parliament. S55D(c) of the Electoral Act says that a statement by the leader must: state that, after conside ...

On the 6th of November at 3 pm Mike Davidson gave his maiden speech as a new Green Party MP in Wellington. At 4 pm he was meant to be getting sworn in at the inaugural meeting of the Waipapa ...

The Government has saved the taxpayer billions with two new Interislander ferries from Guangzhou Shipyard International and no-nonsense infrastructure in Picton and Wellington, Rail Minister Winston ...

Unlike other public service entities who are appointed by the Public Service Commissioner, the Commissioner and statutory Deputy Commissioners of Police are selected by the Prime Minister. There are ...