The centrepiece of the budget may make sense on its own terms, but when contrasted with what's not being funded, it's telling.

A week ago, Wellington was tracking significantly higher than previous years, but it’s now on a par with 2022: 30.4%. On the ...

The 2025 local elections are set to return one of the worst (if not the worst) turnouts in history, with Auckland currently tracking at a dismal 23.1%. Those numbers suggest a widespread sense of ...

On one side, the country’s largest and most well-funded breweries. On the other, a guy called Daryl with some barrels.

Gender attitudes might be sliding backwards, but ladies’ names increasingly adorn buildings around New Zealand.

With eyes set firmly on a role in government next year, Te Pāti Māori has promised that a series of “small adjustments”, upcoming policy announcements and a promise to work better together will pave ...

In an increasingly disrupted world, individuals and community organisations are working to make Aotearoa a little better ...

We've got to present really complete and compelling – and I hope, transformative – policies, because I think everyone's just a bit tired of not seeing change.' ...

This is why Counting The Beat feels so current and timely: it tells us that 52% of New Zealanders are eating differently because of increasing costs, and that the country had one of the biggest ...

A week ago, there were reports of voter turnout being “significantly up” on 2022. This appears to have been overly optimistic: the voting period was increased from the 22 days of the last election to ...

As researcher Jeffrey O’Neill notes in The Conversation, 77% of those who skipped the 2022 local elections did vote in the 2020 general election, suggesting disengagement isn’t the issue. Instead, ...

Step one: push people out of work and onto the streets. Step two: get mad at people being out of work or on the streets ...