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Auckland Transport continues to insist it will chop down the six
Auckland Transport continues to insist it will chop down the six mature Pohutukawa trees - emblems of our city. Ive been stunned at extraordinarily ...

Falling oil prices and an improving economy should mean
Falling oil prices and an improving economy should mean long-overdue payrises for kiwi workers – right? Well, Business New Zealand’s Phil O’Reil...

New Zealand’s Muslim Community has requested a meeting with the
New Zealand’s Muslim Community has requested a meeting with the Prime Minister and Sam Lotu-Iiga, Minister for Ethnic Communities, and been turned d...

After an appalling select committee process where we received 600
After an appalling select committee process where we received 600 submissions - but Im sure we heard only a fraction of those who wanted to submit on ...

We expect our intelligence agencies to be politically neutral.
We expect our intelligence agencies to be politically neutral. That’s been thrown into real doubt in the past couple of days. The SIS claimed it ha...

Voting closes at noon today for this year’s Forest & Bird bird
Voting closes at noon today for this year’s Forest & Bird bird of the year competition, so get over to birdoftheyear.org.nz and choose your favourit...

Ive been gobsmacked by the landing of the tiny Philae space probe
Ive been gobsmacked by the landing of the tiny Philae space probe on a comet these past few days. Its incredible that after 4 billion miles, a tiny sa...

What’s empowering or educational about trucks dropping off
What’s empowering or educational about trucks dropping off corporate food donations at low-decile schools? Nobody wants to see kids go to school hu...

Last weekend the government announced a possible selloff of
Last weekend the government announced a possible selloff of thousands of state houses. A week into the debate there’s one blaring unanswered questio...