Ending Fees Free Punishes Young New Zealanders
Student debt, impossible rents and collapsing home ownership aren’t accidents, they’re the economic architecture of modern New Zealand, and young people are paying for it.

Student debt, impossible rents and collapsing home ownership aren’t accidents, they’re the economic architecture of modern New Zealand, and young people are paying for it.

A Māori electorate once expected to stay comfortably with Te Pāti Māori is suddenly wide open after Mariameno Kapa-Kingi’s dramatic split and new party launch.

Young people can’t find work, can’t afford study and are leaving the country in record numbers, yet the Government is still cutting education support.

For 40 years US war planners warned attacking Iran would trigger economic chaos, regional war and humanitarian catastrophe. Trump ignored all of it, and now the world may pay the price.
Trump says Iran is broken. The CIA reportedly says otherwise. If Tehran still holds most of its missile stockpile and can survive months of blockade, this war may be entering its most dangerous phase.

ACT wants migrants tested on Kiwi values. Fine. Let’s test ACT’s values first: privatisation, punishment, property rights and crocodile tears.

Moana Maniapoto didn’t let Winston Peters dance away in fog and fury. She held the line. And exposed how thin the old magic has become.

The push for larger council structures is raising fears that regional communities like the Coromandel will lose local voices and local control.
Luxon says his Singapore trip secured New Zealand’s fuel future. The problem is nobody can guarantee what that fuel will actually cost.

The economy built on housing speculation, privatisation and cheap growth is colliding with climate chaos, energy shocks and public exhaustion.