In what has become regular news, the quarterly ETS auction has failed, with nobody even bothering to bid. The immediate reason is that the carbon price has fallen to around $60, below the auction ...

Welcome back to our weekly roundup. We hope you had a good break (if you had one). Here’s a few of the stories that caught our attention over the last few weeks. This holiday period on Greater ...

Chris Luxon has doubled down on a dog whistle attack on South Auckland garages by apologising if anyone was offended, thereby ignoring most of South Auckland who were definitely offended.

I can't see that happening, Gosman. There aren't enough NZ First voters to make a significant difference to ACT's vote and most NZF folk are socially conservative, not libertarian. I'd see them as ...

The Labour Party has released its list lineup. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to refresh the caucus, and it's down to one leader's sacrifice and another's steller performance.

Just two months before election day, Donald Trump appears to have won a diplomatic coup in the Middle East. The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain have normalised relations with the state of Israel.

Another Tory MP has quit. This time it's first term MP Andrew Falloon. UPDATE: The PM was informed on Friday, but chose to be discreet. UPDATE: NewsHub are claiming that Falloon sent porn to a ...

So, you want to buy your first home? Firstly, congratulations! You have joined or will join the large but slowly shrinking team of rational Kiwis who think ahead and look at the future. Indeed, why ...

I do not think in all my years of interest in politics that I have ever seen a more disorganised week from National. Last Sunday it started with a horror poll suggesting that Labour could conceivably ...

One news reporter says "the protest leadership" are apologising for the >week of abuse and threats so far – apparently they were completely unaware such things were going on. Reminds me of my pub days ...

Aotearoa’s free-market waste experiment dumped By: Simon Louisson - 3:00 pm, August 1st, 2020 - 13 comments Environment Minister Eugenie Sage this week announced the beginning of the end of Aotearoa’s ...

Four poems on the 2009 tsunami that cost 150 lives in Samoa The post The Sunday Poems, by Nafanua Purcell Kersel appeared first on Newsroom.read more ...