Te Atatū MP Phil Twyford has written to the charities regulator asking for Destiny Church to be struck off. Around 30 adults and young children had to be barricaded into a room in a library in West Au ...

Critic announced: 2025 marks Critic’s 100th year in print, and we are incredibly proud to announce our intention to produce a book to commemorate this milestone. A centenary only comes around once, ...

It’s been interesting to read all the repetitive columns predicting Luxon’s demise – either imminently as my friend Matthew Hooton reckons or at the endpoint of a long, slow march to oblivion as my ...

Cutting the corporate tax rate could boost the economy by billions of dollars a year, according to modelling done by consultancy Deloitte. Lowering the corporate tax rate is one of a suite of policy ...

Newsroom has a summary of taxpayer money spent on Mt Ruapehu: 2018 – $10m towards financing the Sky Waka (pre-insolvency) 2020 – $5m for operating expenses (pre-insolvency) November 2022 – $2m loan to ...

I am aware that there are a proportion of the public who distrust the IPCA specifically because of perceived deficiencies in the report last week. Accordingly I want to provide what insights I can ...

As Estonia’s former Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, now EU foreign policy chief, put it, “Why are we giving Russia everything they want even before negotiations have started?” The dangers of this approach ...

I cover the approval ratings for 51 Mayors, and look at what the top 12 have in common, and the bottom 10. Also cover the massive change over time of the ratings for Wayne Brown and Tory Whanau.

A post by reader, commenter and sometime poster PaulL. I read many recent comments on the situation and negotiation in Ukraine, including one this morning from our host. I share the concerns about ...

In mathematics, the main topic of PISA 2022, Singapore 15-year-olds in score 575 points compared to an average of 472 points in OECD countries. According to the most recent PISA results, New Zealand ...

A Horowhenua district councillor is under fire for working remotely – from the other side of the world. Councillor Rogan Boyle left the country in October and is said to currently be in Scotland with ...

Erica Stanford says she is “wildly displeased” over an error that led to the Ministry of Education producing inaccurate teacher workforce projections. The Ministry of Education’s latest teacher supply ...