Electoral law changes announced last week are in breach of the Bill of Rights Act, Attorney-General Judith Collins KC says in a report to Parliament. She indicates 100,000-plus people may be directly ...

Trust young people to think. If we are to renew the purpose of democracy after this current bunch of old people have had a crack at shrinking it, we need to turn this into something prospective voters ...

You know a government is in trouble when it has to resort to gerrymander to boost its prospects. The coalition government’s ...

The report concludes that homelessness has increased by a rate greater than population growth. In a footnote it concedes that ...

I also said that if you want to maximise the number of people voting then same day enrolments are a no brainer. But if you ...

Yesterday's electoral law changes smack of US Republican style voter suppression1 tactics.Paul Goldsmith claimed it was a ...

Clearly elements within Federated Farmers think that the farming sector should be immune from any measures addressing climate change. Their logic is pretty wonky. I cannot think of a sector that ...

A few hours ago, it was shared with me1 that Paul Goldsmith’s voting electoral reform affects ~560,000 voters2. Here are the details3: Election day registration: 110,000; Voting ...

It is a classic example of Bumper Sticker politics.

The limits to growth here refers to biophysics not human society or en ...

Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Housing and MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, is calling on the Associate Minister for ‘Homelessness’ Tama Potaka to urgently answer to all whānau and ...

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