The application for name suppression of Mr Tarrant’s counsel is granted and an order made permanently prohibiting publication of Lawyer A and Lawyer B’s names, addresses, and identifying particulars ...

Forty-two senior lawyers, known as King’s Counsel, have written to the government with a scathing critique of the Treaty Principles Bill. Their letter raises a number of concerns with which I am in ...

The political wing of Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as the Houthi militant group in Yemen, have been designated terrorist entities by the New Zealand Government. Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist ...

I blogged a few days ago on how the Royal Society on behalf of MBIE (taxpayers) gets paid to hand out 40 fellowships with $800,000 each. They of course do it through identity politics eyes, so their ...

There could be a fascinating constitutional stand-off, with Trump’s more controversial Cabinet picks. There are three ways they can be appointed. They get confirmed by the Senate, with at least 50 ...

The Term 3 2024 data has just been released. NB: Full Attendance is 9 days in 10. Overall full attendance was 51.3% For Secondary students it was 45.5% For Maori it was 37.5% For Pasifika it was 39.5% ...

Since 2020, when I was released from jail (oops, sorry; I meant to say stepped down from being department head) I have written nearly one hundred columns and done numerous interviews. Many of my ...

The monthly Curia omnibus poll asks New Zealanders if they have a positive, neutral or negative opinion of various New Zealand organisations and groups - tracking public sentiment on them (only costs ...

The transgender refugee who poured tomato juice over the head of controversial British activist Posie Parker during a raucous rally at Auckland Central’s Albert Park, had previously been the victim of ...

The words “Te Mātaiaho is designed to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and be inclusive of all ākonga” have been removed from the introductory statement. Under the guiding kaupapa, the words “the ...

This tweet has had around one million views around the world. Many on the left have celebrated what Te Pati Maori and other opposition parties did. But I wonder what the reaction would have been in ...

A woman who ran a large methamphetamine operation for the Mongrel Mob and received a lenient sentence of home detention has asked a court to let her serve the sentence in Wairoa so she can look after ...