Labour MP Willie Jackson says he understands what Te Pāti Māori MP Tākuta Ferris is getting at in controversial social media posts stating Māori risk being treated as “just another ethnic group.”
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says New Zealanders will have to wait until Foreign Minister Winston Peters speaks at next week’s UN Leaders’ Week in New York to learn whether the NZ government will recognise a Palestinian state.
Luxon told reporters a “final decision” had not yet been made.
The Post’s Nikki Macdonald asks whether court-ordered suppressions can realistically hold back global news in an era of instant sharing.
Fugitive father Tom Phillips’ death and the recovery of his children were reported by CNN, BBC and the New York Times before New Zealand media received an injunction on specific details.
The Supreme Court has upheld an 80/20 property settlement in favour of Quan Zhou after her three-year marriage to Bartholomaeus Roland Lassnig ended in 2015, ruling that financial contributions are the guiding factor in short marriages.
Art history will no longer be offered as a standalone subject in New Zealand secondary schools, with the government citing curriculum changes that aim to streamline Years 11–13.
Instead, aspects of the subject will be taught within other visual arts programmes such as design, painting and photography.
An ACT Party campaign hoarding belonging to candidate Matt Yovich was shot multiple times on a rural roadside south of Whangārei in the early hours of Monday morning.
A global analysis of 1,715 mass killings between 1900 and 2019 found only 6% were committed by women, according to research by Australian criminologists Xanthe Mallett and Loryn Sykes.
