In New Zealand there are currently more than 10,000 children who are home-schooled. In so doing they save taxpayers $100,000,000 per annum. You need permission from the Ministry of Education to teach ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he wants to explore the possibility of scrapping New Zealand’s regional councils as the Government reforms the Resource Management Act. NZ First minister Shane ...

When a grid failure plunged 55 million people in Spain and Portugal into darkness at the end of April, it should have been a wake-up call on green energy. Climate activists promised that solar and ...

No ceasefire deal but we'll stop attacks if Israel does Seyed Abbas Araghchi, Iran's foreign minister, has said provided Israel stops attacks on his country by 4am, local time - which has now passed - ...

I write why the world is a safer place today. I wrote on Friday why I thought Trump would attack Fordow and was surprised to be proven right within 48 hours. One extract: They can of course restart ...

Labour saw a huge blowout in the numbers of households in emergency housing (motels) from 1,000 to over 5,000, falling back to around 3,000 at the change of government. The government set a target to ...

A key donor of Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung has been revealed, with rich-list philanthropist Sir Mark Dunajtschik confirming his financial backing for the mayoral hopeful. Chung, currently a ...

The Government set a target of reducing the number of victims of violent crime from 185,000 to 165,000 by 2030. They have already achieved that.

The new three strikes law is now operative. It is not as strong as I wanted, but still should lead to the worst criminals not getting out so quickly. There are 43 offences (serious violent and sexual) ...