The Waitangi Tribunal has officially recommended that New Zealand have tow standards of citizenship - superior and inferior. This would be based on ancestry. They recommend: extend citizenship by ...

FTI Consulting have done their annual report on what proportion of tobacco in NZ comes from the black market. They use both a survey of users, and also a survey of empty packs to get scientifically ...

Kingi. I can';'t recall if any party has ever before expelled two MPs at once, let alone a third of their caucus. What is also unusual is there appears to have been no due process where they get to ...

I have gone through six months of polls, to analyse which parties Maori New Zealanders say they are planning to vote for. I haven't done this just on the basis of ethnic identity, but also on the ...

Former Green MP Kevin Hague is returning to politics to be the party's new chief of staff. In a social media post on Thursday, Hague said he was coming "out of retirement" to take up the role after ...

Young people need a mix of extrinsic motivators and support for their intrinsic motivation. I have been working with a range of high schools to improve the outcomes of their senior students. We only ...

The government has ditched retrospective legislation that would have hobbled a multi-million banking class action, accepting a Parliamentary select committee’s advice to back down rather than pursue ...

As scientific institutions become more political, political trust in science inevitably declines. Nature magazine is a great example of this. In the tweet above, they demanded they wanted more voices ...

Labour is promising to make cervical screening free for everyone, if elected, through its previously-announced Medicard scheme. Health spokesperson Ayesha Verrall said the move would help prevent ...

NZ First leader Winston Peters says the party’s bill that would ban the public sale and use of fireworks would be a bottom line in any future coalition agreement. This is the issue you pick to be a ...

The Government is considering a crackdown on inner-city homelessness. Rumours of an impending move to criminalise homelessness emerged earlier this week, prompting Opposition MPs to question Prime ...

A naked pensioner was arrested after he was spotted riding through an upmarket Auckland street. Police were called to Tamaki Drive about 1.40pm today after reports of a naked man riding a bicycle in ...