The Government has announced major local government reforms, with one major aspects that Regional Councillors will be replaced by local Mayors. One of the problems of Regional Councils is that when ...

ACT has listed ten reasons to oppose Labour's Capital Gains Tax. They are: The rate will increase over time, as income tax has gone from 5% to 39% and GST from 10% to 15% It’s a gift to tax accountant ...

Today, the Greens are announcing that a Green Government will commit to revoking any consents or permits handed out under the fast-track process for coal, Hardrock gold and seabed mining. This is the ...

The attacks made by National, Act and NZ First, that the party is all theatrics and no substance, and that its MPs never bother spending much time in Parliament, have begun to land – even Labour leade ...

House Democrats are back at work — and, boy, are they mad. They’re mad at the Senate Democrats who cut them out of negotiations and cut the deal to reopen the government after a record 43-day shutdown ...

Chile has just had elections, the first with compulsory voting. They voted for the Chamber of Deputies, half the Senate and the first round for the President. The President is currently Gabriel Boric, ...

Israel’s president and high-ranking military officials on Wednesday condemned attacks a day earlier by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank, calling for an end to a growing wave of ...

Over the last 30 years, state sectors of Western democracies have expanded and senior level state employment, with its high pay, security and access to the levers of power became a magnet for the ...

The US Government has announced they will allow 50 year mortgages, to try and help aspiring home owners. A 50 year mortgage is a terrible idea. It means people are going to be paying off a mortgage ...

The Putin-Trump proposed peace deal for Ukraine is so horribly bad that it makes Neville Chamberlain's Munich Agreement with Hitler look visionary. I will put aside the merely terrible aspects such as ...

At minimum, Reform’s achievement will be to teach Labour and the Tories that they can’t ride roughshod over the interests of ordinary people. Ordinary Brits have had a vast social experiment imposed ...