Woman's fight for recognition of mums
A bill which would allow a young New Zealander to have the names of both of her mothers on her birth certificate has passed its first hurdle in Parliament tonight.
A bill which would allow a young New Zealander to have the names of both of her mothers on her birth certificate has passed its first hurdle in Parliament tonight.
When politicians talk about making the labour market more flexible, it means ensuring that the demand and supply of labour determines the wage rate. writes Peter Lyons.
Labour MP Maryan Street is under pressure to drop a member's bill which would legalise euthanasia.
Changes to regulations about financial statements will be welcome news for shareholders but somewhat double-edged for registered charities.
Sickness will be at best only a temporary excuse to avoid work under the new welfare regime that came into force this week.
Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff is calling for a delay in the passage of the GCSB legislation.
Dairy owners are discounting legal highs as they scramble to clear their stocks ahead of looming new restrictions.
It takes all sorts to make a city, and every large city in the world has beggars. Auckland is lucky - we have fewer than most.
In Britain five politicians have been caught selling their services to fake lobbyists, writes Sue Kedgley. Could a cash-for-access scandal ever happen here?
NZ has just passed a law that mirrors what is probably the most disastrous Australian policy failure of the past 20 years, writes Tracey Barnett. Mandatory detention of asylum seekers arriving by boat.
Far from being alarmed, the Key Government seems set to make the work of the spies, both their own and the overseas variety, even easier, writes Brian Rudman.
Inland Revenue is getting ready to clamp down on thousands of New Zealand residents who haven't been paying tax on withdrawals from their overseas superannuation schemes.
Party pills will be removed from many dairies and grocery stores earlier than expected after a Lotteries Commission crackdown.
Privacy scholars refer to the dangers of aggregation of data and the potential this affords for profiling of individuals and for making of assumptions, writes Gehan Gunasekara.
Dominos UK is using tech to take pizza boldly where no pizza has gone before by developing a remote controlled drone aircraft that delivers, writes Pat Pilcher.
It won't all work out, not without us; now, more than ever, we must tread quietly, writes Daniel Kellly. It is the responsibility of every individual to do so.
Central government politicians have called a roundtable meeting in Wellington tomorrow to look for ways to control street prostitution in South Auckland.
The Government will appeal against a ruling that the new legal aid system is unlawful.
The courts will continue to operate with the current legal aid system for the timebeing despite the Court of Appeal ruling it unlawful.
New South Wales police have created and fired two 3D-printed firearms, the state police commissioner Andrew Scipione revealed in a press conference today.