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 ...

When John Key sneered yesterday that the Labour leadership contest would be "three weeks of reality TV" and "Political Idol, or whatever you want to call it," he clearly meant that in a bad way. The ...

Firstly: Kim Dotcom did not "admit to hacking" at the Internet-Mana campaign launch today, as both network news shows claimed this evening. His "teenage hacker made good" story is Dotcom Bio 101. It's ...

Earlier this week, Act Party leader Jamie Whyte notified the world that he had delivered a speech entitled Race has no place in the law and, it seemed, sat back in anticipation of plaudits for his ...

The Dominion Post reports today that the state agencies that spent $1.5 million on psychometric testing last year may have been on shaky legal ground. It might also have added that they're basically ...

It's almost exactly three months since the New Zealand Herald's 'Diary' columnist Rachel Glucina announced in a tweet that she had been "headhunted" by Mediaworks "for a joint venture partnership to ...

John Key's announcement yesterday of his possible election alliances looks relatively conventional in comparison to last week's election-year kick-off, but it certainly still has its amusing elements.

Public Address regulars Sofie and Jackie love dogs. If this has not been made abundantly clear to you yet, then this will remove any residual doubt. Having broken the Internet with our inaugural Cat ...

When friends of mine were first messing around with bulletin boards back in the early nineties, they used to say that when commenting dropped off, all you needed to do was Drop the A-bomb. Mention ...

So John Banks, helicoptered in to the Act Party, seems set to administer the electoral death blow to that party by virtue of apparent actions committed while he was still a member of the National ...

We have quite a show for you on Media7 this week. We're looking at climate change and the media, and I'll be speaking to Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, the Prime Minister's chief science advisor, a few ...

In The Fern and the Tiki, his frequently withering examination of 1950s New Zealand, the American academic David P. Ausubel devoted many pages to what he regarded as the cruel and authoritarian ...