The Standard
The Government has announced that it will be supplying vaping starter kits to stop smoking services. It is not known who will be the suppliers of these kits or on what terms.
NZ Herald
OPINION: It’s no secret that I was meant to stand for Te Pāti Māori in 2017, but for reasons that I won’t go into, it didn’t happen and I ended up joining...
NZ Herald
OPINION: It’s no secret that I was meant to stand for Te Pāti Māori in 2017, but for reasons that I won’t go into, it didn’t happen and I ended up joining...
Pundit
While we may not always have quality political leadership, a couple of recently published autobiographies indicate sometimes we strike it lucky.
Newsroom
Summer reading: Rob Campbell reviews ‘The History of Ideas. Equality, Justice and Revolution’ by David Runciman and lays out his concerns for what’s coming – plus his one big wish for 2025.
bowalleyroad.blogspot.com
Three Wise Men? Successful political leadership embodies a keen awareness of past, present, and future, along with the wisdom to adjudicat...
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Crossing Cancelled: The decision to pull the plug on the IRex project was one of the earliest – and stupidest – decisions New Zealand’s ne...
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The Natural Choice: As a starter for ten percent of the Party Vote, “saving the planet” is a very respectable objective. Young voters, in pa...
Newsroom
Comment: Christopher Luxon was absent for the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill and has now decided not to attend Waitangi, too
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“Like you said, I’m an unreconstructed socialist. Everybody deserves to get something for Christmas.” “ONE OF THOSE had better be for me!” ...
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String-Pulling in the Dark: For the democratic process to be meaningful it must also be public. WITH TRUST AND CONFIDENCE in New Zealand’...
Newsroom
A drafting error has delayed the oil and gas ban repeal, after the bill was initially rushed through Parliament, Marc Daalder reports.
The Conversation
Subsidising fossil fuel exploration seems contrary to New Zealand’s international commitment to phase out incentives for the industry. It also erodes human rights to a healthy environment.
E-Tangata
“Individually or together, these two bills would entrench libertarian preferences in New Zealand’s constitutional framework. They would also obstruct the consideration of Te Tiriti in future lawmaking.” — Melanie Nelson.
Newsroom
A loss of confidence in Speaker Gerry Brownlee and a punishing legislative schedule – MPs are at boiling point ahead of the holiday break.
Newsroom
Speaker bulldozes past argument over the public v private benefits of a law fast-tracking 149 named projects, provoking a Labour 'no confidence' motion. Fox Meyer reports.
Newsroom
This new Number of the Day is based on 42 very, very costly words in an 18-month old Treasury report, and some 'spotty' costings out of China and Korea, writes Jonathan Milne.
NZ Herald
Willow-Jean Prime has been a Labour MP since 2017. She is a mum of two and has worked as a solicitor. OPINION Countless academics, experts, survivors – all...
E-Tangata
“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose.” — Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman.
E-Tangata
The lobby group Hobson’s Pledge "has turned Hobson’s incidental remark to chiefs into a weighty pronouncement that justifies the suppression of Māori rights and identity." — Susan Healy, Tim McCreanor, Ray Nairn.
The rising star MP on chairing the committee that will attract untold heat, his own path to politics, and whether haka are welcome at the hearings.
Newsroom
This week on the Raw Politics podcast: what voters want on climate change policy, will ministers ditch the foreshore repeal, plus Ayesha Verrall's faux pas
Newsroom
Comment: The Government's decision to cut humanities and social science research from its major funding stream is both bad policy and scientifically illiterate, writes Dame Anne Salmond
The Standard
Five recent polls show that Kiwis are tired of the Coalition government, but will the trendline hold?
NZ Herald
THREE KEY FACTS It is a sensible speaker that knows their audience — and a sensible audience that knows ... that the speaker knows the audience. The result...
