Greens Slam Fees Free Cuts Amid Youth Crisis
Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.

Young New Zealanders are leaving, unemployment is climbing, and the Government’s answer is to make tertiary education harder to afford.

More than 1,100 Kāinga Ora jobs have already gone. Now the Government wants to centralise maintenance teams while tenants wait longer for repairs.

For decades, producers have banked the profits while ratepayers cleaned up the mess. Jamie Arbuckle’s Bill may finally force the cost back home.

The Government calls it modernisation. The Greens call it a bulldozer through public conservation land, and once it is gone, it is gone.

Luxon says he is preparing New Zealand for a rainy day. The climate experts say he has refused to buy the umbrella.

New Zealand farmers say local producers shouldn’t be forced to compete against cheaper imports produced under weaker animal welfare standards.

A Government-funded antisemitism report is now at the centre of a fierce political and ideological fight over Israel, Zionism and free speech in New Zealand.

Communities smashed by Cyclone Gabrielle are still cleaning up forestry slash, and now the Government wants weaker protections and fewer local controls.

Councils are already stretched thin. Now the Government wants sweeping reforms pushed through at speed, and the Greens say democracy is paying the price.

Community groups are under pressure. Demand is exploding. Funding is stretched thin. Now six political parties are being forced to answer for what comes next.