Advocates include a former National leader, a high-profile NZ First candidate and a billionaire donor.  Keep Reading

By avoiding the spotlight to prevent backlash, Chris Hipkins risks putting already exhausted voters to sleep. Keep Reading

Everyone agrees that groceries in New Zealand cost too much. The rising price of cheese, mince and milk has become a national conversation in a land of plenty. Keep Reading

Yeah, so it's not good for Labour in the latest Taxpayers' Union-Curia poll. They've now fallen to 26 percent, which is below the 27 percent they got at th Keep Reading

On Saturday the election hoardings went up. Keep Reading

Those planning to rort MMP should bear in mind that two can play at that game Keep Reading

The ideas of how to game the MMP are justifying its immediate reform Keep Reading

The two major parties fail the young, in part by favouring policies for the elderly. Economics professor Robert MacCulloch thinks this election offers a solution. Keep Reading

'My job here is to win this seat, and create a base so that Wellington is back to being a Labour town.' Keep Reading

So on Saturday morning, driving around Auckland, the sledgehammers were all go pounding election billboards into the ground. As once neat and tidy patches Keep Reading

Bob Edlin writes -  West Australia-based Dr Andy Asquith – it seems - has become the go-to expert on local government, when journalists check out the dubious goings-on of local authorities. He has been referenced in media reports this week dealing with a byelection in Porirua, the Tauranga City Council's regulatory conflict of interest, and… Keep Reading

The Roy Morgan poll shows women swinging behind Labour and the other opposition parties and men staying firmly with the National-led coalition. Keep Reading

“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes have selected an overwhelmingly Pākehā student cohort.” — Professor Papaarangi Reid. Keep Reading

Bryce Edwards writes – About 14 billion litres of raw sewage have gone into Wellington’s south coast over the last seven months, and it’s still flowing daily. It’s the environmental outcome of a mega-million-dollar catastrophe at the Moa Point sewage plant that authorities have been dodging the blame for. This week, the government’s Crown Review… Keep Reading

Comment: National’s decision to rule out regional accommodation levies unilaterally challenges the core trust and enforceability of its city deals with Auckland and Otago, says Mark Thomas Keep Reading

Has Te Pāti Māori just ruled itself out of government, or will Labour’s Chris Hipkins cave in, in the pursuit of power?  Te Pāti Māori's "... Keep Reading

RBNZ hikes OCR again, as most expected, & as the NZ-invented inflation-targeting model forces it too. But it will scar our jobless youth even more, curb investment & worsen capital cost inflation. Keep Reading

I think I can explain what’s going on. Keep Reading

And the danger of making the whole weaker than the sum of its parts. Keep Reading

Comment from Otago University: NZ faces mounting financial liabilities under the Paris Agreement as major political parties sideline climate policy Keep Reading

Opinion: Health NZ responds to an article by TVNZ reporter Gill Higgins who detailed her experience during a three-week stay at North Shore Hospital. Keep Reading

Simon Watts criticised councils for implementing the government’s own parking policies. He’s not the only one who seems confused. Keep Reading

With apologies to John Milton for misusing his title, but does New Zealand have an accountability issue? Recent events suggest the answer is yes, and our democracy is the poorer for this. Keep Reading

Analysis: An apology can kill a news cycle. But for some politicians, sorry still seems to be the hardest word to say. Keep Reading

Nearly nine in ten New Zealanders want lobbyists subjected to clear rules. Keep Reading