I was involved in beginning South Auckland Middle School in Manurewa. We had 120 students to start and quickly grew to 180 and with a waiting list of over 100. The students were over 85% Maori and ...

Double murderer Mark Lundy will be released from prison next month, despite holding firm to the position that he never killed his wife and daughter. Lundy has spent more than 23 years behind bars for ...

Local authority rates and payments increased 12.2 percent in the 12 months to the March 2025 quarter (14 percent contribution to the 2.5 percent increase). Rates are captured once a year in the ...

A teen who took part in a violent and unprovoked street attack, king hitting one of his victims, has narrowly avoided jail after a judge ruled it would not be the “just” outcome. Just? Just for who?

This chart from Robert Macculloch tells quite a story. It shows government consumption per capital, adjusted for inflation. The Clark Government over nine years increased spending by around $450. Then ...

Pere Huriwai-Seger is a Te Pāti Māori candidate. He saw Casey Costello in a foodcourt and proceeded to berate her. Casey politely said "We’re not going to agree, so just move on”. But this guy then ...

This is the billboard released by the Sensible Sentencing Trust, highlighting how a Green MP has been advocating abolishing the Police (and prisons!). The Greens complained that the billboard was a ...

I doubt China will move on Taiwan yet, I predict they’ll wait until after the midterms. What China are doing is severely restricting rare earth minerals, which if I’m not mistaken will be to the US ...

Chris Bishop has announced some major changes to driver license testing. On the surface they look like very good ideas that will reduce costs and hurdles, but increase safety. The changes are: ...

There is of course a reasons centre-right voters distrust the news. That is because so much of the NZ media is biased against centre-right views. Many accept the viewpoint of the left as automatically ...

Green MP Tamatha Paul has launched a fundraising campaign for a group wanting to “defund the police” and close the court system. Paul has been attracting attention over recent weeks for her comments ...

Anyone who claims that this current government is practising austerity is either dishonest or a moron, or both.