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 ...

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 even acknowledge receipt of a ...

A dramatic graph. The rest of the world has kept coal consumption almost static for the last 30 years while China has tripled its consumption. This comes from Doomberg who argues that the Chinese ...

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 ...

August 16, 2025 8:00am by Kokila PatelGeneral Debate 16 August 2025 ...

The Government’s decision to introduce a lower excise rate for heated tobacco products (HTPs) has been widely framed as “giving tax breaks to tobacco companies”. It’s a provocative line – and ...

For too long, New Zealand’s education system has been content to drift in a sea of mediocrity. Everyone has known for a long time that NCEA is broken. Thirteen years ago, when I finished high school, ...

Hamas leaders could be forced to leave Gaza after Middle Eastern states united behind a new plan to end the 22-month-long war. Qatar and Turkey, two of the group’s main patrons, have thrown their ...

The latest Transpower System Operator weekly report makes very sobering reading for people who want the lights to stay in in the carbon free mania that is NZ. https ...

Cabinet has agreed to a series of important legislative changes to enable the transition of New Zealand’s 3.5 million light vehicles to paying for our roading network through electronic road user ...

The proposed changes to our national qualifications system: A semi-vacuum at Year 11. 4 out of 5 subjects to “pass” Year 12. 4 out of 5 subjects to pass Year 13. No clear guidance on University ...

Audrey Young chatted to Mark Mitchell, and he revealed his various health challenges from past injuries. Lung damage from the 1990s when he woke a sleeping mother and son to get them out of a house an ...