Peter Dunne writes -  The school lunches debacle is a classic example of what happens when social policy projects lose sight of their original objectives. When the school lunches scheme was established in 2018 the intention was to provide a healthy lunch to those students who because of their circumstances might be going without lunch… Keep Reading

Winston Peters loves facts. The most important part of being a politician, he says, is “to do your homework and get the facts right”. But last week, the dog ate his homework. The New Zealand First leader launched a bill that was so devoid of facts that it would have made Donald Trump blush. Keep Reading

The Prime Minister is speaking to media after today's Cabinet meeting. Keep Reading

Contenders:  The next question after “Will Luxon really go?” is, of course, “Will that work?” The answer to that question lies not so much i... Keep Reading

A simple waiata, composed by Whaea Inupo Farrar, was sung at each of the 22 hui held around Aotearoa in 2009 to answer the question, what is Whānau Ora? Its... Keep Reading

“Just like that, we were told there’d be no more books and language support for our children and families. It's been devastating. I want whoever’s in charge of these literacy funding decisions to walk in my shoes for a day.” — Alana Nootai. Keep Reading

Labour's leader talks up the importance of taking new faces to the electorate at the 2026 election, but there's an exception, writes Tim Murphy Keep Reading

ANALYSIS: New Zealand will be forced to take sides with either the US or Europe - and neither option comes without risk. Keep Reading

Analysis: NZ Doctor editor Barbara Fountain considers what will be in store for the audience at this week's invitation-only Health Forum, when newly-anointed minister Simeon Brown steps up to the podium. Keep Reading

Analysis - It's increasingly clear after exchanges between Erica Stanford and David Seymour, via the media, that all is not well. Keep Reading

The government wants to make retail a safer work environment by allowing for citizen's arrests. One legal expert fears the change will have the opposite effect. Keep Reading

Additional funding for primary healthcare is a good thing, even where it is a mix of previous funding decisions, reallocation of other health funding, and... Keep Reading

Analysis: China's been seen as being provocative after live firing in the Tasman Sea - but New Zealand has done the same. Keep Reading

Analysis: The challenge facing him was convincing Vietnam of the ways it does actually need us, and so in that metric, striking such a deal is a success. Keep Reading

Act New Zealand leader David Seymour is poised to become Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand. He talks to political editor Mike Houlahan about the... Keep Reading

As the prime minister stumbled and stammered his way through a round of interviews on Tuesday morning, following the resignation of Andrew Bayly, Beehive insiders were cringing. Keep Reading

THREE KEY FACTS All he had to do was say yes. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon could have saved himself a nightmare news cycle by telling Mike Hosking: “Yes,... Keep Reading