If you felt life got worse in the last five years, you were not alone. The 2023 General Social Survey data lets us see the changes since 2018, and 2021. Changes are: Enough income to live on down from ...

The armed forces of New Zealand and Australia have swapped deputy commanders at their respective joint forces headquarters, signaling that they consider the defense of their nations an interconnected ...

This chart uses data from the General Social Survey. As you can see trust in four vital government institutions increased slightly from 2016 to 2018. Since then it has plummeted for all four ...

The fifth health target is that 95% of patients wait less than four months for elective treatment. Again in 2015 and 2016, over 99% got treatment within four months. It has now dropped to 61.8%. A ...

Schools will have to play their part in setting a good example as well. This means not taking teacher-only days during term time. Under existing regulations, and terms in the union contracts, ...

So, John Horner of the Financial Markets Authority thinks that KiwiSaver’s reaching $100 bn “…is something to celebrate; for a relatively small country like New Zealand, it represents a coming of age ...

The fourth health target is for 95% of patients to wait less than four months for a first specialist assessment. From June 2015 to June 2017 almost 100% of patients got a first assessment within four ...

Parliament has established a special select committee to consider submissions on the constitutionally important Parliament Bill. It has eight MPs, being: National 2 Labour 2 Greens 1 ACT 1 NZ First 1 ...

The media have moved on from Labour's Associate Foreign Affairs Spokesperson saying that the murder, rape, torture and kidnapping of 1,000+ Israeli civilians was justified. They ran one story, and ...

Acting Public Service Commissioner Heather Baggott has today announced the appointment of Andrew Coster to the position of Secretary for Social Investment and Chief Executive, Social Investment Agency ...

The 3rd health target is for 95% of ED patients to be admitted, discharged or transferred within six hours. This is a critically important one that saves lives. From 2015 to 2017 it was at around 92%.

The Ministry of Education applied a brutal vaccine mandate to teachers (including Correspondence School staff) in late 2021. However – they decided that 41% of their own staff would not be covered by ...