Half-baked attempts to fix New Zealand’s failing health system has resulted in Aotearoa drifting into a hybrid public-private model that threatens to combine the worst of both w ...

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...

Four poems on the 2009 tsunami that cost 150 lives in Samoa The post The Sunday Poems, by Nafanua Purcell Kersel appeared first on Newsroom.read more ...

The line that all the things NACTFirst embrace are "imported culture wars" is a cop-out. eg Labour & the GP imported the current transgenderist lines ( from US: self ID, pronoun enforcement, ...

Ministers Shane Jones and Chris Bishop continued to make decisions about several fast-track projects despite their respective parties receiving donations linked to the applicants. One political ...

New Zealand starting to feel the pointy end of the climate crisis By: weka - 10:26 am, July 14th, 2025 - 57 comments Categories: climate change, disaster - Tags: floods, just transition, Nelson, ...

Al Jazeera: Once a pioneer of the social welfare state, New Zealand now has over 40,000 people who are homeless, forced to live in their cars and in garages as a result of rapid house price and rent ...

A quick Brethren reference By: Dancer - 10:56 pm, August 2nd, 2008 - 121 comments Categories: election 2008, john key, national - Tags: ...

Six months ago, the Trump administration paused almost all foreign assistance. As more than US$60 billion of programs suddenly stopped, we predicted that people would die, the world would become less ...

A few hours ago, it was shared with me 1 that Paul Goldsmith’s voting electoral reform affects ~560,000 voters 2 Here are the details 3: Election day registration: 110,000 Voting period registration: ...

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike … ...

This post is crossposted from Mountain Tui’s publication In my mind, if I could draw – (spoiler: I can’t draw) – I’d draw David Seymour with an Atlas branded tutu whirling around Aotearoa New Zealand ...