A proposed law change would allow security agents to spy on foreign communications with impunity during the Rugby World Cup.

Labour is calling for submissions on the spying powers of the Security Intelligence Service to be heard in public.

Laws allowing spies to intercept text messages and snoop on computers will be pushed through before the 2011 RWC.

State agencies will gain fresh powers to snoop and search under a sweeping law change,

A casting agent for Sir Peter Jackson's planned film adaptations of The Hobbit has been dismissed after placing newspaper ads seeking extras with "light skin tones".

A watchdog has slammed three organisations over the locking up of a alcoholic, 43, in a resthome for more than a year without proper legal authority.

Democracy is getting a fighting chance in Tonga writes Audrey Young.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard now has no chance of avoiding a further, divisive, debate on gay marriage.

John Key was confronted by a screaming mob of Mana by-election candidate Matt McCarten's supporters, as he campaigned in Porirua today.

Detainees at Sydney's Villawood detention centre may go on a hunger strike after the death of an Iraqi asylum seeker.

An analyst of the political conflicts which beset modern Myanmar says Suu Kyi faces plenty of obstacles ahead.

People around the world have celebrated as Aung San Suu Kyi was this week freed from seven years of house arrest. She says she will continue to fight for human rights and the rule of law in the military-ruled nation of Myanmar.

A former Burmese political prisoner says Aung San Suu Kyi is 'the hope of the nation'.

Women losing the gains of workplace equality...

The police were helpless to contain the crowd's enthusiasm when the barricades around Suu Kyi's house were taken down.