Once water reform is out of the way, all eyes will turn to the complex, expensive quagmire of the council's social housing.

A Christchurch man is taking Kāinga Ora to the tenancy tribunal over a bedroom-based discrepancy that has seen him evicted from his home of 13 years.

Social housing in New Zealand is in a state of flux as Kāinga Ora halts building projects and councils ponder the feasibility of being landlords for the most vulnerable. On the eve of Matariki in June ...

Porirua locals are voting on a potential mega-council merger, and, bucking the national trend, picking a mayor from an all-female lineup.

New Zealander Ashley (Ash) Stanley-Ryan is a PhD candidate in international law at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He teaches international law and has advised both states and international ...

Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.

As local elections fever grips the nation, council candidates are jostling for your vote the best way they know how: by chucking up great big bloody signs on the side of the road. Here are The Spinoff ...

For a long time the Black Ferns' immense talent has papered over shortcomings in how we run the women's game. But talent alone is no longer enough.

But where the personal website lives on is in local elections, where candidates suddenly think that it might be a good idea to have their own domain name. The Spinoff has been spending far too much ...

In an excerpt from Pakukore: Poverty by Design, Huhana Hickey (Ngāti Tāhinga, Ngāti Ira) argues that policy failure keeps people in Aotearoa in a cycle of poverty – especially if you’re disabled and ...

A startling truth has emerged from a new long-term forecast: we may have to resign ourselves to paying taxes at a rate most Europeans would take for granted.

Lewers’ facial expressions were a frequent source of amusement: when Shand said “if wages show importance, the CEO is far more important than the mayor”, Lewers smiled sardonically. (The CEO is paid ...