One of the whoppers told regularly by Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon is that National inherited a terrible, no good economy from Labour, with rampant inflation and sky high interest rates that ...

One can only hope that the New Zealand diplomats and corporate leaders heading to Washington to beg for leniency on our 15% tariff rate do realise that paying Trump off with large amounts of ...

Luxon did protest too much on the weekend. Sure, the credulous party faithful were willing to believe him as he continued to lay the blame for the state of the economy on what Labour did, or didn’t do ...

Other countries are expanding the ability of their citizens to vote. In Britain (from which New Zealand has long taken its constitutional cues) the franchise is being extended to 16-year-olds. In this ...

While the retirement surge was anticipated, Dr Bradford says the more troubling trends lie in the intentions of younger and mid-career GPs. These include mid-career GPs considering early retirement ...

Reportedly, a large amount of the cost of creating and running the new $235 million medical school at Waikato University will be financed by philanthropic ...

As Donald Trump zigs and zags on tariffs and trashes America’s reputation as a safe and stable place to invest, China has a big gun that it could bring to this tariff knife fight. Behind Japan, China ...

Looking for consistency in all things is said to be the hallmark of a small mind. Duly noted, but the Luxon government’s stance on climate change does seem strikingly inconsistent. For starters, New ...

One of the odd aspects of the government’s plan to Americanise the public health system – i.e by making healthcare access more reliant on user pay charges and private health insurance – is that it is ...