Category Politics

Council spending on emergency management has increased year on year, with surges corresponding with major flooding events. The increased budgets have mostly been matched in pace by an increase in total dedicated staff, meaning higher spending is not due simply…

Claims by ex-politicians Helen Clark and Don Brash that China poses no security threat to New Zealand are “naive”, former Labour defence minister Andrew Little says. Little has called for an analytical debate about the security threats facing our country,…