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“How do we get change? I think the way to do it is through the power of story. To persuade people that something really needs to change, we need to tell our stories.” - Deborah Russell, Labour MP. Read more...

London-based 30-year-old New Zealand artist Luke Willis Thompson has been shortlisted for one of the world's most prestigious annual art prizes - The 2018 Turner Prize Read more...

For a work in which he collaborated with the partner of a US police shooting victim. Read more...

The literature on his blood-soaked rule has reached Babel Tower proportions. Joseph Stalin, who presided over a state transformed and tormented, has been a difficult subject to portray. His period of rule, its cruelty stupendous and murderous, has ... Read more...

The National Party says the government has simply adopted its vision for transport in Auckland. Read more...

The government is considering putting a levy on imported petrol vehicles to help subsidise electric cars. Read more...

So the old saying goes, the main difference between the centre-right and centre-left is that both believe in market solutions, but the centre-left spends a lot more time worrying about the effects, afterwards. (If only market capitalism could be nicer ... Read more...

From Checkpoint , 5:15 pm on 24 April 2018 Zac Fleming , Checkpoint Producer Benedict Collins , Political Reporter Read more...

The Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones wants politicians to have more control over the state sector, even though state sector workers must be politically neutral and independent. Read more...

Auckland International Airport's forecast profits for the next five years look too high and will cost passengers more to fly, the Commerce Commission says. Read more...