Politics

Jacinda Ardern has announced she will step down as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party, in an emotional speech where she held back tears, this afternoon. Her resignation will take effect on the appointment of a new Prime Minister, and a caucus vote to elect a new Party Leader will occur in

Winston Peters discusses the Governments Five Waters with Sean Plunket. The media fails to notice the select committee bombshell that will hand iwi control over coastal and geothermal water. Only iwi have the right to issue these edicts, which are binding on the Water Services Entity in their region

The results of the eleventh Taxpayers’ Union Curia Poll is more bad news for the Labour government. Act & National could govern alone. The polling period was Thursday 1 – Friday 9 September 2022. Here are the headline results: National bounces back from 34% in August to 37% in September and Labour d

Emergency Department wait times are soaring in Southland, with more than one in five people waiting at least six hours for treatment, MP for Southland Joseph Mooney says. “There has also been a marked decline in the proportion of people who go to the Emergency Department being seen within six hours.

As a local independent news media outlet whatsoninvers.nz chose not to sign up the the Govt media slush fund. Due to the strings attached. The Platform looks closer at the Public Interest Journalism Fund and exactly what mainstream media have agreed to. Read more:  How Government funding is used to

Today’s Cabinet reshuffle has been sparked by the departures of Kris Faafoi and Trevor Mallard. Earlier, it was confirmed Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern would announce some “minor” changes to the Cabinet line-up. Ardern confirmed Faafoi had decided to leave Parliament to be with his family as his you

There’s a lot of spending flying around in Budget 2022 – here’s the main expenses in an easy-to-read list. Cost of living: $1b package: $814m for a $350 per person cost-of-living payment for individuals earning under $70k, equating to $27 a week per person over three months from 1 August for about 2

International student numbers at the Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) have decreased since Covid 19. Across the country, the pandemic has seen numbers fall from 50,920 in 2020 to 39,005 in 2021 – a decrease of 23%. International students were once New Zealand’s fifth biggest export earner, bri