A Northland principal has questioned the level of nutrition in the new free school lunch programme that will be rolled out from next year at a cost of $3 per meal. The moment I saw this paragraph, I ...

The Ministry of Health has not won itself many friends this week with its failure to inform minister Casey Costello that one of its staffers is related to her arch-rival in Parliament. Costello has ...

The backlash generated by ACT, National, NZ First, Hobson’s Pledge and other right-wing bad faith actors towards Solicitor-General Una Jagose’s prosecution guidelines, has been nothing short of a race ...

The Māori Development Minister has cautioned the group tasked with deciding the future of Ihumātao – which has so far cost the Crown $500,000 – that they could be shown the door, if they fail to find ...

On a quiet Friday afternoon in August, justice minister Paul Goldsmith announced the appointment of three leadership roles at the Human Rights Commission: Stephen Rainbow as chief human rights ...

Not a huge amount of change in the last three days, except five of the six forecasts now have Trump winning Pennsylvania, and hence the White House. Almost 32 million Americans have already early ...

In 2003 I founded Mt Hobson Middle School and led it for 18 years. Emily Martin is a wonderful young person and so superbly supported by her family. The reasons she gives (from 27mins on) for Mt ...

Waikato public hospital has told nurses not to speak to patients in any language other than English. A memo sent to all nursing staff last Friday, obtained by RNZ, said concerns had been raised about ...

In 2003, UCLA epidemiologist James Enstrom and I published a study of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)—also called "secondhand smoke" or "passive smoking"—in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). Using ...

The Government is listening to New Zealanders and Cabinet has agreed to recommend modifications to the Sentencing (Reinstating Three Strikes) Amendment Bill, Associate Justice Minister Nicole McKee ...

NZ Initiative Chair Roger Partridge has written an excellent report, called Who Makes the Law? It deals with how the Supreme Court has gone from interpreting law to making law, and how we can change ...

In 1992 the Canberra Times asked 300 political and history academics to nominate the five greatest Australian PMs. The results of that survey tells us much more about the academics than the PMs. Their ...