Dr Isabelle Chambefort, general manager – energy at Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly GNS Science), makes it clear minerals have always been critical. “Humanity has been developed around mining.

An Area Standards Committee of the Law Society fined Stephen Franks and Franks Ogilvy for, well being lawyers. They sent a letter on behalf of their client to health professionals involved in "gender ...

A journalist asked Nicola Willis whether she would advise people to “ease back on the accelerator” or consider working from home due to higher petrol prices. Nicola explicitly said she was “very ...

As most readers will know, Stuff ran a story that said PM Luxon had asked the Samoan Government to give him a title. This was a hugely damaging story. Anyone who read that would think incredibly ...

Chris Hipkins has let the truth slip about Labour’s Covid spending. On Newstalk ZB yesterday he admitted the Labour Government would have gone ahead with many of its spending decisions even without ...

It is the inevitable consequence of a non-adversarial fact-finding system that no matter how competent and diligent the fact-finder, mistakes are made in the findings. For example, in my case the IPCA ...

The Medical Council has proposed a statement on cultural competence that is basically a political litmus test. It is outrageous overreach, and an example of why Parliament needs to rein in all these ...

The Taxpayer's Union has done a report listing 103 ways local government can save money. Some of the more significant ones which I support are: Install water meters Avoid excessive advertising Do ...

In this part, I look at how often urgency has been used to bypass select committee consideration of a bill, and also how often the 6 months standard consultation period has been reduced. This practice ...

Former wife of Labour leader Chris Hipkins, Jade Paul, has posted a series of unsubstantiated personal claims about their relationship on social media - claims Hipkins says he “reject[s] entirely”. In ...

John Davidson has Tourette syndrome. He has the variety where he uncontrollably yells out offensive things. It isn't what he is really thinking. It is just part of who he is. He has campaigned for ...

As a keen follower of Parliament, one of the issues I have tracked in the past has been use of urgency. Back in around 2011 I was concerned about the amount of urgency being used, and actually worked ...