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The money, time and traffic orbiting Labour’s new harbour crossing plan have local and central politicians alike shaking their heads

It doesn’t matter if they're wide motorways or tunnels under the harbour, more roads are not going to solve our transport problems, writes Timothy F. Welch.

Leader Helen Houghton sets out a multi-billion-dollar plan to 'strengthen families'

Times have changed since Helen Clark clinched the 2008 Free Trade Agreement with China. Labour’s recent defence and foreign policy documents are responding to a very different strategic context, writes Nicholas Khoo

Indian football has reached a crossroad it had come to, 14 years ago, before the Nehru Cup 2009, when first-division (then I-League) clubs had refused to release players for National Camp. This time, the clubs are from Indian Super League and the competitions at hand are the U-23 AFC Asian…

Dutch Eric Wonink has been coaching since he was 17 years of age. His work has taken him to Germany, Croatia, Belgium and India. However, it was during his term in India as the National junior women’s team coach (2017-23) that Eric found his calling. India is even more special…

The Member for Calare, who quit the Nationals over referendum, also told Garma festival Coalition had ‘rocks in its head’ and would be seen as ‘reconciliation wreckers’

Carole de Colville, one of the first women to work as a field reporter in national current affairs television in Aotearoa New Zealand, died recently in Australia. Her colleague and friend from that time, journalist Alison Parr, remembers her impact.

THE Electoral Commission have weighed in on whether Scottish Labour can be considered a political party – or if they are simply a wing of the UK…

However poor the performance of the Pakistan men’s National hockey team has been in major international competitions for nearly a decade or so, it has had a relatively steady flow of young and enterprising juniors into the senior team. In the present 20-member Pakistan squad taking part in the Asian…

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: National rolls out its tried, trusted – and a bit exaggerated – spend-up on roads, Labour promises to patch things up, and the polls reflect a new reality with NZ First.