An Otago student has set up a petition to have disgraced Dunedin artist John Middleditch's sculpture removed from public display at the University of Otago. The large bronze sculpture created in 1969 ...

The press and left call the right “culture warriors,” but we were not the ones who put pornographic material in elementary schools. We were not the ones who demanded kids in colleges attend seminars ...

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has found Stuff in breach of multiple broadcasting standards for a hatchet job on ASH - Action on Smoking and Health. Basically what it all goes back to is that ...

At a human level, of course no one wants to risks their lives by publishing a cartoon. It is very understandable. But as a media organisation, it is saying that terrorism works, and we will censor ...

The Government’s move to cut public sector spending on consultants and contractors is on track to save $800 million over two years – double the initial target, Public Service Minister Judith Collins ...

For the first time ever, ACT is looking to stand candidates in local council elections. Today ACT Leader David Seymour announced the Party is seeking expressions of interest from New Zealanders to ...

The latest CNN/SRSS poll has the Democrats historically unfavourable. That is an awful trend. So in Bush’s second term, they were very popular. Then they fell away in Obama’s first term, rebounded, ...

Some useful recommendations from the LGNZ working group on local elections. Move to a nationally consistent system of in-person voting for all local elections that is as similar as possible to ...

This is of course all the work of the Green Party Police and Corrections Spokesperson, Tamatha Paul. I think it is fair to conclude that there is a pattern.

And what was the result of the police investigation into Hana Maipi Rawhiti-Clarke’s ram raid? From an OIA the police said – we are no longer investigating. That was it, no ot ...

Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell has a simple proposed members' bill to amend the Bill of Rights Act to have equal suffrage extend to local government. Equal suffrage is a fundamental human right. The ...

Jerry Coyne has found a wonderful new research paper. The abstract is: This article offers a queer lesbian feminist analysis attuned to lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities. Specifically, the ...