For this essay Gordon Campbell drew on quotes and commentary contained in the Children’s Literature Review, particularly the two essays by Nancy Lyman Huse. Shelley Jackson’s obituary for Tove Jansson ...

ACT also aims to charge a $6 a day “infrastructure surcharge” on all temporary work visa holders, and to exclude all residence visa holders from welfare assistance for five years from time of arrival.

Labour finally came down off the fence last week and agreed to give National the votes required to get the free trade deal with India through Parliament, after New Zealand First came out against it.

As Gautam Mukunda of the Yale School of Management has wryly pointed out to Bloomberg News, AI machines are often wrong, but they are never uncertain. Reportedly, “I don’t know” responses result in ...

Clearly, last year’s fears of a stockmarket “AI bubble” have long gone. AI firms and related stocks are now being treated as the backbone of […] ...

In his tilt at the leadership last November, Chris Bishop plainly forgot Omar’s excellent advice from The Wire: “If you come at the king, better not miss.” He’s now paid the price. Yet in the wake of ...

Decades ago, Alexander Cockburn wrote a column pointing out that the true believers in the power and precision of the defence industry’s latest weaponry tend to be (a) their gullible government ...

The recently infamous “I’m the CEO/ Your job is the Prime Minister” exchange between Christopher Luxon and Tova O’Brien should be a defining moment in Luxon’s downward trajectory as the leader of the ...

The Chinese Embassy is right. The recent joint statement by Australia and New Zealand condemning China’s actions in the South China Sea reads like a relic from a bygone colonial era. A weirdly ...