Once a borrower’s income reaches $24,128, the Government takes 12 cents of every dollar earned above that threshold to pay off the student loan. Someone earning $25,128 ($1000 above the threshold) ...

We’re now well past the point where the coalition can blame everything on the mess they inherited. That line worked in 2024. It even worked — just — in 2025. But with an election looming in November, ...

Today was a teacher only day at my boys' school so I've been out all day visiting grandparents., indoor playgrounds and rugby. Having now got home, I've seen that the monthly Curia poll for the TU has ...

March 6, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 06 March 2026 ...

The great Neil Postman wrote a remarkable book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. It is at least as predictive as Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's Brave New World. Across every school qualification for ...

A few days ago the Government announced an absolutely stunning drop in violent crime, with 49,000 fewer NZers saying they had been victims that two years previously. This was the largest fall ever in ...

Over the past two or three years, Act Party MPs have been attending every pro-Jewish or pro-Iranian freedom protest that has occurred, and have also attended October 7 memorial events. No other party ...

The second poll commissioned in February 2026 revealed that 66 percent agreed that New Zealand's economic system was not set up to effectively to address issues like housing, healthcare and climate ...

The administration’s use of the Justice Department to intimidate President Donald Trump’s political opponents and stifle dissent reached a remarkable new low last week, when federal prosecutors in the ...

Bryce Edwards has written an entire column on how there could be a Labour - NZ First Government after the election. Bizarrely he neglects to mention an incredibly salient fact - that Winston Peters ...