National’s proposed under-16 social media bill would require age-restricted platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to take “reasonable steps” to stop children under 16 accessing them.
Te Pāti Māori is considering an election tactic that could affect the balance of Parliament even if its nationwide party vote remains very small: not submitting a party list at all.
A survey reported by RNZ as showing that almost two-thirds of New Zealanders are willing to pay more tax for better healthcare found only 12.4% unconditionally agreed to pay more.
MBIE chief executive Nic Blakeley has kept his job after the ministry was found to have deliberately misled Parliament, despite offering his resignation and publicly declaring that “accountability rests with me”.
Consumers are paying more to fund grid investment as higher regulator-approved revenue lifts Transpower’s after-tax profit 64% to $176 million under new Commerce Commission settings.
National and Labour are drawing increasingly firm lines around tax ahead of the election, with both parties ruling out a GST increase and now rejecting a planned rise in fuel excise.
New Zealand allows some migrants to vote years before they are eligible to become citizens, an arrangement journalist David Cohen describes simply as: “This is bonkers.” Writing in the NZ Herald, Cohen backs NZ First leader Winston Peters’ push to restrict voting in general and local elections…
Far North District councillors have voted to remove Councillor Davina Smolders from Te Kūaka, the council’s Māori strategic relationships committee, following months of disagreement over its structure and the role of unelected iwi and hapū representatives.
Former Financial Markets Authority chair Craig Stobo will stand for New Zealand First in Botany against Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle say Meta’s US$17 billion child-harm settlement exposes a deeper problem with attempts to regulate social media giants: companies can afford enormous payouts without fundamentally threatening their business model.
It’s that ‘oldest living culture’ that’s the problem.
Cambridge appoints jihadi who advocates making advanced weaponry for jihad.
The neutrality finding is the CV. Two ticks New Zealand First. Vote Luxon out.
Winston is right. The vote is for citizens. Welfare, pensions and health should be next.
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