Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Highfield, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education Academic Lead, ...

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In recent days, David Seymour has been whining that no-one is seriously debating his stupid little bill to supposedly try to ...

Hi,Let me gripe about my day, and maybe you can gripe about yours, too.The washing machine and dryer in our apartment building are coin operated. That means in order to do a load of washing, you load ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon last Friday appeared to be starting to moderate his pivot to the United States under the foreign policy reset. Back in August he had told Australia’s Lowy Institute ...

Why did America vote for the least suitable candidate imaginable? And what are the implications for New Zealand politics?

Who doesn't love to watch Tūī? Who doesn't love those colours, almost too good to be true - the deepest, glossiest, most lustrous of deep blue, the iridescent turquoise, the crisp-as-a-vicar's-collar ...

Oh, it's a mystery to me We have a greed, with which we have agreed And you think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all, you won't be freeSongwriter: Eddie VedderToday is the last ...

Hi,Watching New Zealand from afar offers a strange perspective. It can be a good thing — distance from Aotearoa helped keep me sane while I reported on abuse at New Zealand’s biggest megachurch over ...

Property rights – which enable decisions over tangible and intangible assets – are critical to an economy as Why Nations Fail pointed out. Not just private property rights for, as we shall see, they ...

Hi,Let me gripe about my day, and maybe you can gripe about yours, too.The washing machine and dryer in our apartment building are coin operated. That means in order to do a load of washing, you load ...