The National Party made public its harsh welfare policies in August last year, resulting in a marked increase in calls to counseling service Lifeline by distressed...

Legislation making controversial changes to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) has passed its first reading in parliament by a...

More than 500 motorcyclists roared through the small South Island city of Nelson on last weekend to give a clear message to local MP Nick Smith, who is also the...

Changes being proposed to New Zealand’s publicly owned Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) could block access to counselling for victims of sexual abuse. The...

For over a week television viewers and newspaper readers in New Zealand -and even some overseas- were fed constant updates about Aisling Symes, the two year old girl...

When Auckland bus drivers were at a standstill negotiating with their employer NZ Bus, a company owned by Infratil, they took a creative form of industrial action;...

In an article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal today a number of of senior health professionals call for New Zealand to halve its greenhouse gas emissions...

Department of Conservation workers and scientists from the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) have been searching for phreatoicids (pronced...

The Press reports that some central Christchurch retailers are claiming that customers will “abandon the city centre for suburban shopping malls” if the city...

Green Party MP Sue Bradford has announced her resignation from parliament, effective as of the end of next month. According to the New Zealand Herald The decision to...

Back in April, the results of the 2008 Quality of Life survey were released. They showed that Christchurch was New Zealand’s safest city, with less than 100...

Thirty eight workers at an Open Country Dairy processing plant in Waharoa, Waikato walked off the job at 6pm on Wednesday night beginning an eight day long strike....

The new $4.9 million Mt Roskill fire station was opened in Auckland on Friday. Yet at the opening ceremony Prime Minister John Key was drowned out with shouts of...

Photos of New Zealand soldiers posing with a 2000 pound bomb were released to the media last weekend. The soldiers had written “Dear Taleban, enjoy this” on...

New Zealand First held its annual general meeting last weekend and affirmed it will contest the 2011 election. The party missed out on parliamentary representation last...

Social development minister Paula Bennett made headlines in July when she released private information on two women who had criticised the governments welfare policies,...

Vicki Walker, an Auckland (New Zealand) accountant, was sacked for sending supposedly confrontational emails with words in red, in bold and in CAPITAL LETTERS. The...

Letter from a friend. “What else in the woods” Animal Holocaust in an Australian Carpark As human beings, what right do we have not to afford equal...

“If the radio notifies in real time and the Internet soon after, television has the bad habit of making spectacles out of news. Then theoretically, it should be up to...

Like many developed nations, New Zealand has an aging population, by 2031 those aged over 65, the current retirement age, will be equivalent to 35 percent of the...