The day began with a meeting with Modi, hugs and general admiration, and ended with Luxon delivering the best speech he has made in many months, followed by an informal mixer with the business and ...

As someone whose life work is in education I hear adults complain so often about the "next generation". This quote has always anchored me: 'The children now love luxury; they show disrespect for ...

A US obstetrician-gynaecologist has cast serious doubt on a high-profile child abuse conviction, asserting the main injuries sustained by the baby were the result of trauma suffered during labour and ...

The Technology Users Association (TUANZ) is raising concerns about the potential risks of deregulating the long-standing copper network outside urban areas as proposed by the Commerce Commission in ...

The Government is proposing changes to procurement rules to make it easier for New Zealand businesses to win government contracts that are collectively worth more than $50 billion a year, Economic ...

My disappointment at learning about the planned closure of the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum has been tempered by the touching reaction to the imminent loss of my medal collection ...

Central to Sachs’s worldview is the claim that NATO’s eastward expansion forced Russia’s hand. According to this narrative, the West broke solemn promises made in 1990 not to expand “one inch eastward ...

Wellington’s council has spent $22 million on outsourced advice on its town hall upgrade - $2m more than the original budget for the cursed project. Isn't this astonishing. The WCC has spent more mone ...

Substack blogger Emily Writes spoke to a source with a family member at a school who claimed the child opened their school lunch yesterday, "and a couple of flies came out". The media are so desperate ...

The Greens’ Tamatha Paul has expressed “regret” about a claim she made on social media that the “vast majority” of people in prison are there for non-violent offences that they’ve “had to do as a ...

A reader inquired if the support lost by the major party of Government since the election is a record. I didn't think so, but have now gone and checked the data. This compares the 1st 1 News poll of ...

The Public Works Act is a necessary evil. In theory no one should ever be forced to sell their land against their will, but then we would never be able to construct essential infrastructure. So any ...