Matua Jones has news for any iwi standing in the way of a fast-track application.

After the interrogation was over, one councillor was compelled to give his beleaguered North Shore counterpart a pick-me-up.

Accusations over climate change legislation have the lobbying industry back in the headlines, and it's all negative.

Cautionary tales from abroad show that when automation and AI goes wrong, it does so at speed and scale – with huge human and financial costs.

The government's latest reform risks dismantling the very conditions that make social housing more than just a roof.

At the last election, 30% of eligible voters of Māori descent – or 5% of the total voting population – chose not to.

David Seymour and Winston Peters are all for fiscal discipline and hard choices, just not when it comes to their own ministries.

Politicians backing a bill to define the terms ‘woman’ and ‘man’ in law reckon they’re doing it to support new mothers. Really?

The new coach has assembled some old familiar faces to help restore the team's dominance. But will his nostalgia-tinged appointments pay off?

Please replace me with AI, for my chief concern is productivity.

A government that repeatedly destabilises workforces, reduces services and creates widespread insecurity will find the social contract beginning to erode.

A late addition to the suite of reforms changes the overarching purpose of the Conservation Act. Its impact could be profound.

A win isn't always the best result.

It’s time for our awards to honour those at the bottom, not the top.

The government has ignored international law, the world's highest court, our own Supreme Court and the science.