The government needed to do more to fund public aged residential care and also support services that allowed people to go back to their own homes, rather than the “last resort” of having to stay in ...

Four poems on the 2009 tsunami that cost 150 lives in Samoa The post The Sunday Poems, by Nafanua Purcell Kersel appeared first on Newsroom.read more ...

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...

Ministers Shane Jones and Chris Bishop continued to make decisions about several fast-track projects despite their respective parties receiving donations linked to the applicants. One political ...

Six months ago, the Trump administration paused almost all foreign assistance. As more than US$60 billion of programs suddenly stopped, we predicted that people would die, the world would become less ...

The line that all the things NACTFirst embrace are "imported culture wars" is a cop-out. eg Labour & the GP imported the current transgenderist lines ( from US: self ID, pronoun enforcement, ...

If young people are not allowed to vote until age 18, then they should be exempt from taxes until 18. No taxation without representation as someone, somewhere once said. It's a nice slogan but ...

Those early voting numbers exceed ALL of ACT and NZ First’s votes by a ratio of 107%. In 2023, all special votes 4, including enrolments 13 days 5 and up to election day, gave Te Pāti Māori two more ...

Te Pāti Māori spokesperson for Housing and MP for Te Tai Tokerau, Mariameno Kapa-Kingi, is calling on the Associate Minister for ‘Homelessness’ Tama Potaka to urgently answer to all whānau and ...

The latest Talbot/Mills poll continues to show the gradual erosion of support for the present government – the leaders are ...