Treasury papers released today show the Government did not follow a call from its financial advisers for it to set a 2020 greenhouse gas emissions target 15 percent above 1990 levels.

Should the way tax is gathered be changed? We set out the arguments for and against.

New Zealand's poorest high schools will lose out under Government policy billed as helping more children to play sport.

Tonga's King has committed an act so foolish that it bears comparison with some of the biggest political clangers of recent history.