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There are a few days left to put in a submission on the Electoral (Registration of Sentences Prisoners) Amendment Bill. The bill would allow prisoners serving sentence of imprisonment under three ...

The 2023 General Election has a preliminary result. The preliminary result is mostly meaningless from a legal standpoint, but we don’t want to wait two weeks to hear some number, so we get a rough and ...

For the past decade and a bit, I've been working as a computer technician and sales rep. During that time, I've seen the desktop and laptop computer go from being the main method people get on the ...

Former cyclone Lusi wasn't the only wild, hot air over the weekend. That deafening sucking sound you heard was elements of the political right having a massive tantrum because the Judith Collins story ...

My first confession is that I'm an Uber driver. Actually, it's my only confession. It's been 65 days since my first Uber passenger. It's a confession that has to be made, mostly because it surprises ...

Regular readers will know that I've been hanging out for the "market allocation" parts of the proposed Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill, which will be the subject of a referendum this year.

There are four types of bills that Parliament considers: most bills are government bills, but there are also members bills, private bills and local bills. Members bills are relatively well know (some ...

The New Zealand Drug Foundation has posted the cover story I wrote for the current issue of its Matters of Substance magazine. It covers our history of substance use and abuse, the laws that have ...

During the plague, I’ve been amusing myself by watching a show about immortality. In the world of Ad Vitam, a French series on Netflix, Covid-19 wouldn’t exist; disease apparently doesn’t and death ...

On Saturday, New Zealand’s chief censor, David Shanks, issued a decision declaring the manifesto of the man accused of the Christchurch Mosque shootings to be objectionable.That means it’s banned, and ...