Seymour’s mean little Treaty Principles Bill prefers toi live in denial about our colonial legacy. It does so in the name of a bogus “equality” that assumes everyone in New Zealand enjoys equal access ...

For all those reasons, there is plenty of scope for healthy scepticism about the sincerity of today’s apology pageant. To some extent, the government is using these historical atrocities to showcase ...

When researchers examined the impact of polling station location on voter turnout, they found that when the distance to a ...

During his next term, two thirds of the court of last resort for protecting US constitutional freedoms, are likely to be ...

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So far, the Great Multi-lingual Healthcare Crisis has passed by without any damage to life, or to limbs. To date, no-one appears to have mistaken the Hindi word for “lunch-break” for the Filipino word ...

We all know the “tough on crime” approach is only a stop gap measure at best, and that a justice model based on incarceration doesn’t work. Our prisons are already overcrowded and under-staffed. More ...

Clearly, Israel is intent on de-populating Gaza for Israeli re-settlement, and is using military force as a form of state terrorism to depopulate swathes of southern Lebanon. To similar ends, it is ...

Oyez oyez, CEO Antonia Watson, CEO of the biggest bank in New Zealand has come out in favour of a capital gains tax! Actually, this is not a daring new idea. Over the past three decades the IMF, the ...

Mike King’s latest comments about the relationship between alcohol and mental health – according to King, alcohol does more good than harm – raises red flags once again about this organisation, and ...