Portia is a Kiwi journalist who has worked on some of NZ’s most challenging investigative news stories. Portia and her family enthusiastically embraced the many freedoms of a democratic society when ...

Among the areas it identified for improvement was a rule that said any discussion of assisted dying had to be initiated by the patient. The rule was made out of concern a patient might feel pressured ...

An interesting OIA response which details how many RMOs (junior hospital doctors) who left the NZ health system every year: This is part of the reason the health system is now under such strain – the ...

The TEU recently had a conference on academic freedom. I found this amusing as one of the biggest enemies of academic freedom is the TEU. There have been numerous stories of academics who have faced ...

We exist in a very progressive space. In a survey of our peers, the Yale Daily News found in October that 82 percent of respondents intended to vote for the Harris-Walz ticket. The divide is larger ...

The new Investment Plan focuses on supporting research that can be of economic, environmental or health benefit to New Zealand. The new Terms of Reference outline that approximately 50 per cent of ...

KiwiRail is a state-owned enterprise, and so by law its principal objective is “to operate as a successful business”.1 Success in the business world means that you provide something that your ...

I'm away on a Disney cruise ship with my eight and five year old. Even better than the water slides, pools, shows, kids clubs, pirate parties, character meets etc is that there is little or no ...

The Government will shortly unveil its plan to give voters a choice on moving to a four-year Parliamentary term. ... Act’s bill was first put up as a members’ bill in the last Parliament. That bill ...

The Spinoff has an article by Zeni Gibson which details eight years of harassment by a man called Greg. Her suffering has been appalling, and hey tormenter has made a mockery of the law that should be ...

The former UK Labour Deputy PM John Prescott has died aged 86. He was one of the last genuine working class Labour Ministers. He worked as a ship’s steward before becoming an MP. He was the UK Labour ...

Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Garin Golding stood up a Court of Inquiry following the incident in order to understand the facts of what occurred. “The direct cause of the grounding has been determined as ...