Very sad that Hamish Price has died. I've known him for almost 30 years. My strongest earliest memory of Hamish was at a public meeting in Loaves and Fishes Hall in Wellington where he loudly asked ...

Wellington architects have put forward plans for restoring and reusing a block of “ugly” and “dangerous” flats set to be demolished. Victoria University of Wellington confirmed this week it will ...

Bishop sided with former Wellington mayor Tory Whanau’s call to allow more housing in the capital, even though every conservative councillor was opposed. He made Christchurch zone for high-density ...

A great parody of the famous Monthy Python skit where Jews sit around moaning that the Romans took everything from them, and never did anything good for them - except for ... It is very pertinent when ...

By Lucy Rogers I read an excellent Herald article today showing that arming cops with lethal weapons is an Utterly Stupid Idea: You can find it if you scroll down the Herald website for long enough, ...

It is interesting to look at the list of Maori MPs who have won general electorates in NZ. The list is: ...

Ms Leary told the reporter she did not “directly use ChatGPT to ask questions”. “I use AI to help me analyse documents. I formulate my own questions.” This was a lie. In the email to Ms Costello from ...

Eastlander: I have always thought the way Maori treat death to be much superior to what was until quite recently, European practice. I remember when a close friend’s mother died about 25 years ago ...

Unrepentant, Labour’s finance team should at least consider being embarrassed by their boorish heckling of the Finance Minister. Far from presenting a government in waiting to steward New Zealand out ...

A controversial piece of artwork that prompted 101 complaints in a week has now been stolen from a Hastings art gallery. The installation, Flagging the Future, at Te Whare Toi o Heretaunga Hastings ...

Over 2025, Curia has been asking in the monthly Taxpayers’ Union poll whether those in employment work in the public or private sector. If public sector, we further ask if they are a public servant or ...

Te Pāti Māori MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi has been reinstated after an interim judgment by the High Court. The Te Tai Tokerau MP had sought the injunction against her party’s decision to expel her, ...