MMP is meant to deliver a proportional Parliament. That is how it is designed, and how it was sold. There is one aspect to it though that can make Parliaments unproportional. It is overhang seats - ...

The CTU (and FOL before it) used other be the main body representing working class union members. But we can see from its leadership that it has been a very very long time since it has had a working ...

A West Auckland lawn mower says he's received death threats after a Facebook post from Te Pāti Māori president John Tamihere accused him of vandalising election hoardings. Emerald Lawns operator Steve ...

Andrea Vance reports: Wellington’s $400m sewage sludge treatment plant has seen its budget surge by “a ball park” 20%, adding around $80 million to the original estimate, The Post understands. The ...

A Rotorua Council worker got $7,500 judgment for lost wages over what is basically process issues. But the substance of their behaviour makes me think they should have got nothing. Here's what they ...

Stats NZ have published the latest life expectancy at birth data. Here's the increase for each ethnic and gender group from 2006 to 2023. Māori men +3.3 Māori women +2.9 Asian men +2.8 Men +2.1 ...

A guest post by Owen Jennings: Editors who invite reader’s contributions usually make it clear they reserve the right to not publish any particular letter and normally they refuse to give reasons or ...

Helen is a bit different. She moved overseas in 2009 to work for the UN, returned I think 2017. Unlike someone else, she didn’t leave because a country hated her ...

An interesting chart from Federated Farmers showing their members' confidence in their economic conditions. So around 2010 confidence went positive. From 2012 to 2017 it fluctuated up and down. In ...