The Coalition Government will support at risk regional air routes with up to $30 million in loans from the Regional Infrastructure Fund for small passenger airlines, Regional Development Minister ...

Robert Redford was arguably the dominant A list actor of my childhood. Out of Africa remains one of the saddest films I have seen. He kept working up until the age of 82, playing Alexander Pierce in ...

Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere says MP Tākuta Ferris was, in essence, correct when he hit out at non-Māori supporting Labour’s Māori electorate campaign. Tamihere said Ferris could have worded ...

The key statistic for NZ education vs the world – is that we have the highest gap between students who do well and those who do not. These gaps exist within schools by ethnicity. E.g. For Auckland ...

Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris has doubled down on social media comments he made last week which led to “racist” allegations and an apology from his party. In a new Instagram video, Ferris said it is ...

The NZ Initiative has put out a great report proposing a much more efficient structure for both Cabinet and the wider Executive. NZ currently has 81 ministerial portfolios, 28 ministers and 43 ...

It has been revealed just how unimpressed Treasury was with the Reserve Bank for pitching for a 50% funding increase shortly before Adrian Orr resigned as governor. As they should be. Treasury raised ...

David Seymour is standing by the driving that saw him land in the crosshairs of a State Highway 1 motorist’s cellphone, with footage posted to Reddit showing the Deputy Prime Minister apparently ...

An immigrant who tried to rip off his health insurer twice by submitting fake X-rays and medical notes for bogus conditions won’t face deportation as long as he completes a community service sentence.

Northland College is making moves to become a charter school and is the first state school to publicly reveal it is doing so. The Kaikohe school says it desperately needs to do something to lift ...

A young man jailed for a spree of armed robberies in the Waikato was back reoffending soon after being released, but this time targeted stores and people around the North Island. When Katana Faulkner ...

September 14, 2025 8:00am by Kokila PatelGeneral Debate 14 September 2025 ...