A week ago, Wellington was tracking significantly higher than previous years, but it’s now on a par with 2022: 30.4%. On the upside, turnout looks set to beat 2019’s record-low final turnout of just ...

It was a strange and eventful night, but in the end all candidates united on one, potentially impossible, course of action.

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 ...