His whole demeanour reeked of someone who’d been hollowed out and defeated. His nervous manner was accentuated by a tobacco-stained beard, from a habit he’d had since childhood. When I first met Earl ...

Though AI systems are constantly improving in accuracy, caution should be exercised in relying on them for decisions with ...

A five-part Newsroom series looks at the political and legal strategy the Crown used for decades to marginalise and defeat claims from victims of state abuse and torture. When Leoni McInroe came ...

An essay by Matt Vance in response to a monumental study of one of the world's great birdlands – the bleak, uninhabited, and ...

When Helen Clark came into power in 1999, her government continued to minimise the Crown’s liability for the state’s torture and abuse of children. Aaron Smale continues a series on the Crown’s ...

The students who attended McCahon’s summer schools in Kurow remember him as a thin, reticent man who gave his all to his students regardless of their abilities. Public ridicule of his work went ...

Incoming Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche will offer the public service a steady hand at a time of significant upheaval, writes Laura Walters ...

New Zealand writer Anna Rankin concludes her remarkable two-part essay on Los Angeles in lockdown as she wanders through the deserted, crumbling city. NZ writer Anna Rankin thinks her way through the ...

NZ Disability Support Network chief executive Peter Reynolds says some disabled inpatients at hospitals are unable to be released into residential care, despite being ready, due to uncertainty ...

New Zealand is making Australia look good when it comes to new efforts to save the world's biodiversity and protect its oceans. Photo: Alexia Russell Conservation Minister Tama Potaka is playing down ...

Not all cricketers get to contest one, never mind two major finals during their playing days. Rachel Candy once managed two in consecutive days, and that would end up drawing a line under that part of ...