The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act is an inadequate piece of law -- albeit one markedly better than what it was designed to replace -- passed ...

Former cyclone Lusi wasn't the only wild, hot air over the weekend. That deafening sucking sound you heard was elements of the political right having a massive tantrum because the Judith Collins story ...

It's hardly new that for science to play its part in public life, complex and difficult ideas must be communicated to the public. The works of Einstein and Bohr, for example, embodied the strangest ...

"Go the All Blacks!" said the young woman. I smiled and gave her the thumbs up. It was a scene so ubiquitous on Cup Final Day as to barely be worth remarking on -- were it not for the fact that I was ...

Yesterday morning, the New Zealand Herald reported that Bevan Chuang, having gone public on her two-year relationship with Auckland mayor Len Brown, "believed Brown had only one option left - and that ...

We loves our photos. Flickr hosts 6 billion images, and then of course there's Facebook, which earlier this year hit 90 billion images, with 200 million added each day. That's a lot. So, when Russell ...

The 2023 General Election has a preliminary result. The preliminary result is mostly meaningless from a legal standpoint, but we don’t want to wait two weeks to hear some number, so we get a rough and ...

There are four types of bills that Parliament considers: most bills are government bills, but there are also members bills, private bills and local bills. Members bills are relatively well know (some ...

After a quiet spell in the news on account of, well, other stories, cannabis and what to do about it staged a modest headline revival this week. First there was this Stuff report on a journal article ...

Regular readers will know that I've been hanging out for the "market allocation" parts of the proposed Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill, which will be the subject of a referendum this year.

When you spend a lot of time on your own, as I do, you tend to notice things more, perhaps earlier. I think it was maybe early February when I started to feel quite concerned about a new virus from ...