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The ANC’s goal in Wednesday’s South African election will be to staunch the bleeding of its support, with polls indicating it will lose its overall majority for the first time since the Mandela election of 1994. The size of any ANC slippage below 50% will ...

On July 4, the United Kingdom will be going to the polls.

Notwithstanding all the usual pre-Budget media hype it is worth remembering that Budgets seldom defeat governments.

The latest census figures are released this week, but the long-term trends are already clear: we will soon be more Māori and more Asian, fertility rates are dropping, and more citizens are leaving.

We like to think NZ is free from a culture of political corruption. But the I am Hope charity whose chair donated $27K to National has been awarded a $24M contract to provide mental health services, & the ACT MP formulating the party’s stance ...

Ian Powell discusses the risks to the direction and credibility of New Zealand’s health system leadership, including the health minister, of a likely pending appointment to a key health boss position.