11+ hour, 29+ min ago   (1068+ words) Lillian Hanly Political Reporter Labour has been "ankle tapped" by National on KiwiSaver according to the managing director of Simplicity, but the wife of Sir Michael Cullen, who got the scheme going, says the party's found the "perfect solution." It…...

12+ hour, 50+ min ago   (1281+ words) Responses to all 12 questions on science policy and investment, climate and natural hazards, gene tech, AI, and emerging tech, are available below. Previous election Q&As are available here. Responses listed in order of the number of seats in the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (877+ words) Aucklanders have travelled through the heart of the city by train for the first time today, as passenger services began on the City Rail Link-enabled rail network. From before dawn, hundreds of train enthusiasts queued across the network to be…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (279+ words) The first graduates of the Bachelor of Nursing Māori Matariki cohort were celebrated at Waiwhetū Marae today, marking an important milestone for Māori nursing education and hauora in Aotearoa. For many graduates, reaching the finish line represents more than a…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1026+ words) Privatisation is continuing to expand in Aotearoa New Zealand’s public hospitals, both in volume and scope. Owing to the Government’s reluctance to use this ‘p’ word, it instead calls it ‘outsourcing’. However, few in the health system and public are…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (964+ words) Labour is calling the government's stance on Israel an embarrassment to the country, and says it is failing to meet its responsibilities under the genocide convention. Britain, France and Canada are set to ban imports from Israeli settlements in the…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (609+ words) GENEVA (7 September 2026) – Large-scale removal of rubble in areas of Gaza under Israeli military control cannot become a way to erase traces of atrocity crimes and another means to entrench Israel’s illegal occupation, a UN expert said today. “The ongoing removal,…...

6+ day, 14+ hour ago   (877+ words) (a) it is wrong in principle (b) it is be more of a test of kids’ technical competence at avoiding the ban, rather than a shield for their vulnerability (d) it commits serious privacy violations, since the ban requires children’s personal and…...

1+ week, 14+ hour ago   (800+ words) The Government’s communications on fossil fuels amount to climate misinformation and closely mirror obstruction narratives used by the fossil fuel industry to delay climate action, a major new report released today by WWF-New Zealand finds. The report analysed Government communications…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (1101+ words) “The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years.” I wrote that in this column 15 years ago. Since then,…...