A recent case in Rotorua raises troubling questions about the police's use of sedition charges.

We haven't been geeky for a while. So: go and get familiar with Scoopit, a newsranker on the Digg model launched recently by the folks at Scoop. We'll have Scoopit buttons under our posts soon and I'll look at other ways working with Al and the guys...

Paul Buchanan compares the 2005 and 2006 SIS Annual Reports: The major discrepancy is in the primary threat assessment. Rather than local jihadis, the 2006 report focuses on the activities of foreign intelligence organizations operating in New Zealand. This begs some questions. What happened to tho

Please join me in remembering a great icon. Veteran Pillsbury spokesperson, The Pillsbury Doughboy, died yesterday of a severe yeast infection and complications from repeated pokes to the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a slightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out...

As the Government has been moving swiftly to defuse the dispute over a planned Landcorp sale at Whenuakite of land sought by the Hauraki Iwi and subject to a Treaty Claim, the Maori Party are calling for comprehensive review of the Treaty Settlement Process. Mr Flavell warned that if issues such as

An assortment of relationship experts put their self-help heads together to come up with conclusive opinions on what different sleeping positions say about a relationship. Actually reasonably funny - Just for the record spooning just gets to hot in summer...

Greenpeace "dupes digger company" in the fight against climate change.

Greenpeace and Genesis Energy are at odds over how much damage was caused during yesterday's protest at the Huntly Power Station. Several Greenpeace activists broke into New Zealand's biggest thermal power station and scaled a smoke stack to highlight the release of a report on climate change...

Fiji's military thugs have murdered again. Sakiusa Rabaka Ligaiviu was detained by the army last month as a suspected drug dealer. He and his friends were taken to a reservoir, stripped, and beaten so severely he suffered from headaches and seizures and required brain surgery...

Since its inception, the Maori Party has been accused of being explicitly racist by the bigots on the right, who find the idea of Maori standing up for their own interests (rather than accepting whatever crumbs Pakeha deign to leave them) highly threatening...

Last week my esteemed whisky-drinking colleague, Russell Brown, posted an article on Hard News which discussed the debate surrounding Section 59 of the Crimes Act. Entitled 'The Arguments' this post has generated a phenomenal amount of discussion on Public Address System...

In late February 2007 on a perfect Wellington evening regular scoop contributor Karim Sahai was out and about around Cuba Street capturing the 'fun of the fair' and the colour of the Cuba Carnival parade.

Lawyers for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks are filing a claim in the Federal Court of Australia in an attempt to secure Hicks' release. Hicks' Australian defense team will charge the government with breaching its duty to protect him, as a citizen, by failing to call for a fair tri

The Green Party is calling on Finance Minister Michael Cullen, and the six Kiwisaver default providers, to ensure that New Zealand workers who sign up to Kiwisaver are offered the choice of a socially and environmentally sustainable investment option.

Four members of the Greenpeace climate rescue team have scaled the 150 metre high smoke stack of one of New Zealand's biggest climate polluters, the Huntly coal-fired power station, and another four are now on top of the coal conveyor leading into the station. Greenpeace New Zealand executive dire