One can only hope that the New Zealand diplomats and corporate leaders heading to Washington to beg for leniency on our 15% tariff rate do realise that paying Trump off with large amounts of ...

Reportedly, a large amount of the cost of creating and running the new $235 million medical school at Waikato University will be financed by philanthropic ...

Luxon’s core claim that Labour left the economy in a terrible, awful no good mess somehow evaded the notice of all of the international credit rating agencies, who were still giving Labour top marks ...

At times, it is pretty hard to see what good the “free” market is doing for most of us. The usual responses – we all benefit when global commodity prices are sky high and anyway, what can you do about ...

Other countries are expanding the ability of their citizens to vote. In Britain (from which New Zealand has long taken its constitutional cues) the franchise is being extended to 16-year-olds. In this ...

Despite the myriad concerns being expressed about the Regulatory Standards Bill – including misgivings by his own Regulations Ministry and scorn from constitutional law expert Sir Geoffrey Palmer – ...

As Donald Trump zigs and zags on tariffs and trashes America’s reputation as a safe and stable place to invest, China has a big gun that it could bring to this tariff knife fight. Behind Japan, China ...

Gordon Campbell on why right wingers think all governments (including their own) are incompetent July 17, 2024 Columns, Gordon Campbell 0 ...

While the retirement surge was anticipated, Dr Bradford says the more troubling trends lie in the intentions of younger and mid-career GPs. These include mid-career GPs considering early retirement ...

One of the odd aspects of the government’s plan to Americanise the public health system – i.e by making healthcare access more reliant on user pay charges and private health insurance – is that it is ...

Should sick leave be part and parcel of the working conditions from Day One on the job, just like every other health and safety provision? Or should access to sick leave be something that only ...