On any number of counts, the New Zealand Public Health and Disability Amendment Bill represents a particularly sorry piece of law-making.Both its content and the manner in which it made its way through Parliament warrant the strongest...

Judith Collins has been fighting back. Last week she was under attack from all quarters over her decision not to implement the recommendations of the MMP Review. Now she's taken to Twitter ( @JudithCollinsMP

Judith Collins has been fighting back. Last week she was under attack from all quarters over her decision not to implement the recommendations of the MMP Review. Now she's taken to Twitter ( @JudithCollinsMP

Judith Collins has been fighting back. Last week she was under attack from all quarters over her decision not to implement the recommendations of the MMP Review. Now she's taken to Twitter ( @JudithCollinsMP

Sometimes it takes an outside eye to reveal the full extent of a change in circumstance. So it was with the report by Britain's SportBusiness Group which showed Auckland had overtaken Sydney as a host of premier sporting events in...

The Auckland Housing Accord at the centre of this week's Budget is what the Americans would call a "Hail Mary pass".Bill English and Len Brown have committed to issue 39,000 building consents over the next three years in a belated...

A while back, one of international cricket's finest players of the past decade was explaining, off the record, the delights of playing in the Indian Premier League to a fellow countryman.Life was one long party, he explained. Booze,...

On Tuesday, Auckland Council issued a rather plaintive rebuttal of the "misinformation" that was being spread regarding the draft Auckland Unitary Plan. The "myths", we were told, were "causing misunderstanding and unnecessary concern...

The year is 2048. Justin Bieber, in his mid-50s, is on a comeback tour. You probably printed your lunch. Winston Peters turns 103 - and celebrates with a blazing parliamentary row followed by dinner at the Green Parrot. And, at last,...

It was a tragedy that apparently America's Cup authorities did not see coming.Artemis' catastrophic training accident which led to the death of British sailor Andrew Simpson was "not on the radar for any of us", according to regatta...

It was the Government's idea to put MMP to a referendum at the last election and it was the Government's idea to load the odds in favour of retention by promising a review of MMP if it was endorsed. We will never know how many of...

John Key is under absolutely no illusions about the difficulty he faces in securing a third victory at next year's election.The Prime Minister accepts that a swag of crucial middle-ground voters who ticked National in 2008 and 2011...

When Bill English unveils his Budget tomorrow, he will no doubt confound the sceptics who ridiculed his claims to get the Government's books back into balance by 2014/15. The indications are that he will achieve that objective and...

In 1973 the Kirk Labour Government was in power. Many Kiwis were starting to protest against French testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific. Fred Dagg was about to become a national icon.The domestic purposes benefit was introduced....