The previous Labour Government abolished almost all the health targets, did a distarous mega-merger during a pandemic, and outcomes in the health sector fell across the board. The health sector is ...

The oldest bureaucratic trick in the world when an agency or council is asked to find savings, is for them to announce they will cut the most popular and liked programs, rather than the much larger ...

To revive our fish stocks and marine habitats, this bottom line calls for an immediate end to bottom trawling in our most damaged inshore area ...

This came to mind recently when EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen got cosy with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at her 2026 state of the union address over Canada becoming an “associate ...

I have now profiled 62 of the 71 seats being contested, and made predictions for 60 of them. Just nine seats to go. So I have 36 seats so far as safe, 11 which are likely for a party, 13 which lean ...

Tauranga City Council chief executive Marty Grenfell has resigned after councillors held an emergency closed-door meeting this afternoon over the Davison report. The council-commissioned review into ...

I wasn’t going to blog again on the Hager book as it was already clear he had so many things absolutely wrong. But three more things today are too noteworthy to pass by. I do wonder where Hager gets ...

The political right are not allowed to have lobby groups and think tanks apparently. In the twisted minds of the Leftists, any group right of centre is ‘evil’ purely because it exists, while their own ...

Labour leader Chris Hipkins vowed to scrap the requirement for primary schools to spend at least an hour a day teaching reading, writing and maths.

Anti-Israel protesters in Auckland are deliberately taking part in a global day of protest against Israel on Saturday October 10 2026, which is the anniversary weekend of Hamas committing genocide on ...

On current average of the polls, NZ First would get 12 List MPs. A few people surprised by Ron Mark being relatively low and Harete Hipango-Brownlie being so high. The left claim that the Government ...

Nicky’s Hager’s last book had an enquiry led by a former Supreme Court Judge, and a former Attorney General and Prime Minister. They concluded that the “principal allegations” in Hager’s book “are not ...