Inspired by a dictionary’s survey of its online followers, The Detail gathers three professional word-workers to nominate the best and worst of language and the traps of faux erudition, cliche, neuron ...

Kataraina by Becky Manawatu (Mākaro Press, $37), the sequel to her celebrated modern classic debut novel Auē, available in ...

Opinion: The controversial Treaty Principles Bill proposed by Act Party leader David Seymour has been criticised by many, but ...

The move to give police search powers in private homes to look for gang insignia has raised a mass of red flags with law ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a meeting with the Security Cabinet after Iran's missile attacks on Israel in West Jerusalem on October 1. Photo: Getty Images Expert opinion from ...

A lack of awareness about protection for whistleblowers likely contributes to employees settling grievances privately, argues ...

In the second of a two-part commentary, former Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer KC seeks constructive ways to find enduring ...

David Seymour attended Kiingi Tuheitia's tangi just over two weeks after he missed the Koroneihana events. Photo: Supplied An email from the Prime Minister’s chief of staff to David Seymour’s chief of ...

As more and more healthcare becomes private, experts worry about increasing inequality in New Zealand Photo: Getty Images More signs are emerging of New Zealanders turning to private healthcare as the ...

Becky Manawatu, photographed in September 2024 by Yvette Robinson. There is a really great conventional novel inside Becky Manawatu’s new novel Kataraina, conventional as in something anyone can read ...

Former Dutch chief of defence Tom Middendorp says his eyes were opened to the link between climate change and security during his time in Afghanistan. Photo: Getty Images As a senior military officer ...

The panel discusses the coalition's forked tongue approach to 'operational matters' in government departments, plus ...