Half-baked attempts to fix New Zealand’s failing health system has resulted in Aotearoa drifting into a hybrid public-private model that threatens to combine the worst of both worlds. Isn't it time to ...

Four poems on the 2009 tsunami that cost 150 lives in Samoa The post The Sunday Poems, by Nafanua Purcell Kersel appeared first on Newsroom.read more ...

With National aligned Desley Simpson ruling herself out of the Mayoralty race and pledging support for Wayne Brown Auckland's mayoral contest looks like it will be a two way battle between Brown and ...

Excerpt reposted from Mountain Tui It’s hard to tell what’s worse: the National government persisting in prioritising money and non-existent 1 “growth” over lives and well-being, or the many people ...

The waka of New Zealand First Party is misguided information, sunshine. It is majestic ship called HMS New Zealand that was built long ago and ruling the waves when you and I still had our snotty ...

David Parker's Deputy Leader 's speech in 2014 at the Wellington Labour Party Conference was the best I ever heard from a Labour Leader. Vision matched values in intensity and scope. Parliament now ...

This is a desperately difficult issue. India is currently experiencing a surge in Covid cases. Per head of population the number is not huge. But Mumbai, where a significant number of returning kiwis ...

There is a suppression in place on parts of the Phillips case/shooting. We don't know what it covers because (stupidly) the courts do not inform us on what is covered. So everything is suppressed here ...

Exactly 10 years ago, the then minister for defence, Kevin Andrews, released the First Principles Review: Creating One Defence (FPR). With increasing talk about the rising possibility of major ...

Why corporate fascism may no longer be a distant dream - and how it's closer than you might think ...

Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving up on fact ...

It’s understandable that Labour has been relatively quiet after their brutal election defeat in 2023 followed by a gruelling 2024. The summer break is for rest and reflection and politicians are human ...