Labour have sputtered out a few new commitments, if you still believe they’re capable of committing to anything.  After National came out and announced their intention to break up the supermarket duopoly, Labour has jumped on the Nats’ coattails – after the Nats jumped on the coattails of economists who

A great white shark is being hunted for destruction after a fatal attack at Perth’s Sorrento Beach, reigniting an old and uncomfortable question in Australia: when a shark kills, should the shark be killed?  Sixty-three-year-old Greg O’Neill was swimming near the shoreline on Friday when he was attacked. Witnesses reported

The City Rail Link (CRL) in Auckland officially opened on Friday, the 11th of September.   As a public transport enthusiast, I am absolutely fuming that this occurred when I could not justify going up to Auckland to take a train. The CRL is the biggest makeover to New Zealand’s transport

The ACT party have wheeled out another inflammatory policy. Party leader David Seymour announced on Thursday the 10th that, if elected, ACT would pursue ending the Waitangi Tribunal’s contemporary jurisdiction. It would mean that, once all cases lodged before the 1st of September 2008 had been settled, the tribunal would lose

The Greens have unveiled a new policy, proposing the creation of a government-owned-and-run supermarket that they’re calling KiwiMart. The Greens have proposed KiwiMart as an alternative to the Foodstuffs/Woolworths supermarket duopoly also positioning it as competition that’d incentivize chains like Woolies and New World to lower prices.    The policy has

The media over the past few months has reported that Opportunity may be the kingmaker in this upcoming election, but the latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia poll suggests otherwise.   Previous polls put Opportunity at 8%, over the 5% of votes needed to get them into parliament. Both Labour and National would need

For Pacific nations, climate change is now far from a political debate, we are already experiencing changing coastlines, oceans, weather patterns, food systems and the future of communities across the region. And as the Pacific heads into another potentially extreme El Niño, the warning signs are becoming increasingly difficult to

Māori politics is at a particularly significant point right now. With the general election less than two months away, the usual question of who will form the next government is being joined by a much bigger one: what should the relationship between Māori and the Crown actually look like?  That

Lateral racism is a term you might hear thrown around, but what does it actually mean?  Put simply, lateral racism is racism that happens between people from marginalised communities, rather than from the dominant group towards them. For Māori, that can mean racism coming from other Māori. That might sound