This is the latest data. Regular attendance dropped 16 percentage points or 25% from 2017 to 2023. A disaster. Since 2023 it has increased 17 percentage points or 37%. In real terms there are 157,000 ...

Readers should click on the tweet above and read it in full. Basically he makes the following points: Our current global population of 8+ billion people is only alive because of a supply chain ...

A former political figure involved in a late night bar incident can now be named. Jack Brazil, a former Green Party candidate and high profile activist, appeared for sentencing before community ...

A re-elected National Government will modernise sexual consent laws to specify there must always be a “yes,” rather than an absence of a “no,” National’s Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says.

New Zealand’s consumers price index (CPI) increased 4.1 percent in the 12 months to the June 2026 quarter, according to figures released by Stats NZ today. The largest upwards contributor to the ...

Agreed it’s mostly about the polling. The Nats have been bleeding votes in more than one direction. Their solution to the rightward bleed is this belated attempt to signal opposition to co-governance ...

It is clear – from school feedback and an Auditor General’s report that the current school lunch programme is beset with issues. Societally it is controversial as our history in this area has been ...

A depressing poll from Pew. This is the sad legacy of Trump. More people in the UK, Australia and Canada have a favourable view of China than the US.

The annual report of the Assisted Dying Registrar is here. Some key aspects: ...

Peggy Burrows is the Principal of Haeata Community Campus. I have covered previously her claiming they received mouldy food from their school lunch provider. An ...

When are they going to thank Pakeha for all the things they love and wouldn’t have without us like: Ford Falcons, Holden Commodores, Cell phones, internet, computers, Lion Red?

ACT leader David Seymour is pondering introducing a ban on children having their own smartphones. The National Party is trying to ban kids from social media, but its coalition partners – including ACT ...