Editors who invite reader’s contributions usually make it clear they reserve the right to not publish any particular letter and normally they refuse to give reasons or even acknowledge receipt of a ...

An interesting chart from Federated Farmers showing their members' confidence in their economic conditions. So around 2010 confidence went positive. From 2012 to 2017 it fluctuated up and down. In ...

A dramatic graph. The rest of the world has kept coal consumption almost static for the last 30 years while China has tripled its consumption. This comes from Doomberg who argues that the Chinese ...

For too long, New Zealand’s education system has been content to drift in a sea of mediocrity. Everyone has known for a long time that NCEA is broken. Thirteen years ago, when I finished high school, ...

The Government’s decision to introduce a lower excise rate for heated tobacco products (HTPs) has been widely framed as “giving tax breaks to tobacco companies”. It’s a provocative line – and ...

Hamas leaders could be forced to leave Gaza after Middle Eastern states united behind a new plan to end the 22-month-long war. Qatar and Turkey, two of the group’s main patrons, have thrown their ...

Chris Bishop announced: Cabinet has agreed to a series of important legislative changes to enable the transition of New Zealand’s 3.5 million light vehicles to paying for our roading network through ...

– Marginal improvements in the 2024 leavers data for Lever 2 NCEA, Level 3 NCEA and UE. – A decline in the NCEA Level 1 pass rates for leavers in 2024. This will set the trend for the next two years.

The usual suspects have got upset over the "opening" of an FBI office in Wellington. I guess they think law enforcement agencies shouldn't communicate. But what is really funny is that we have ...

Audrey Young chatted to Mark Mitchell, and he revealed his various health challenges from past injuries. Lung damage from the 1990s when he woke a sleeping mother and son to get them out of a house an ...