I am married to a gorgeous lady - Luciana Soares Ramos - who came to NZ to live 18 years ago. Two years ago we traveled to Brazil to meet and spend time with her parents. Her mom is in her late 80s ...

As I have said on multiple occasions, I regard any attempts to deliberately engineer overhang seats as semi-undemocratic. MMP is designed to let the bloc with the most votes to form Government.

Had to laugh at the spin by the Ministry of Justice about the new digital court management system. After Law News reported on it, they sent in an op ed which claimed: LawNews’ September 30 article ...

Last week on my post 'Who might be an MP?' one reader commented: "Unless Labour, ACT, Green and NZF as well as National voters in the Hutt [South] electorate vote for Chris Bishop and party vote for ...

The Green Party has lodged a formal complaint against the Sensible Sentencing Trust (SST), accusing the lobby group of impersonating the party with its latest election attack ads. ... The party said ...

Advance voting has started for the general election, and enrolment has closed. Left parties, supported by the media have been wailing about this being some sort of massive voter suppression device.

They’re called the “bureaucratic priesthood” - powerful officials in Wellington who ministers must work with to deliver their promises but who think they, not democratically elected politicians, ...

I remember the final time my father descended into madness. It happened several times in my life. The last time was when I was 24. When it became clear he would slide completely into paranoid ...

I am not opposed to a wealth tax or something similar, but with one major caveat. It should be revenue neutral and counteracted with tax cuts on middle income people. It could even be revenue negative ...

Labour has unveiled a fresh batch of policies promising to fix overcrowding at emergency departments, with more nurses, faster access to hospital beds and care before patients reach crisis point. It ...

A re-elected National Government will make it a crime to remain silent and not disclose information relating to a child being murdered, National’s Justice spokesperson Paul Goldsmith says. “New ...

October 22, 2026 8:00am by Kokila Patel General Debate 22 October 2026 ...