Data issued by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday shows the average weekly wage in Australia is A$1131.40 (NZ$1398) which compared with New Zealand’s average weekly wage of just over $886 means there is a 49.7 per cent difference...

Following the political donation scandal that has seen Winston Peters step down as minister of foreign affairs, become under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office, and likely lose his seat in the election in a few months time, TV3 has reported on...

Shawn Tan, a worker in the call center for the Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union has recently made a dramatic political conversion- from a left-leaning Green Party supporter to a candidate for the right-libertarian ACT Party. Upon doing so,...

Baghdad, Baby! written by Dean Parker and directed by Jon Pheloung is currently playing at the Court Theatre. A humorous yet dramatic political satire, the play takes place in a cafe in occupied Baghdad. Nicolas Kyle plays a young and somewhat naïve ...

Since the start of 2006 New Zealand has seen the collapse or defaulting of around 30 finance companies, funds, and mortgage trusts following a drop in confidence in the finance sector resulting from international credit crunch. A number of the collapsed...

The National Party has recently released its energy policy. National says it would promote gas-fired power stations and as such it would overturn a current ban by the Government on the building of new base-load thermal power stations. The policy is a...

The Christchurch City Council recently made the decision to spend $17 million propping up David Henderson’s property speculation by purchasing five properties from the developer, who’s Queenstown developments have run into financial...

The National party has released its welfare policy; a National government would require single parents receiving the domestic purposes benefit to work 15 hours a week or undertake training when their children reach school age. In the past leader John...

Over the past two years the Christchurch City Council has pushed through an urban development strategy unpopular with the city’s population. A 2006 proposal to build a slow-road though the pedestrian mall in Cashel St received 570 submissions,...

Unite Union secretary and New Zealand Herald columnist Matt McCarton wrote in his most recent column “Something is stirring among the workers...Three separate incidents last Tuesday made me realise that maybe there is some awakening of workers’...