While sitting thinking virtuous thoughts recently, my life-long practice to an almost monastic degree, it appalled me to realise that the Prime Minister is both a misogynist and a racist.

From bouquets in Australia to brickbats back at home. Audrey Young looks at why John Key should be concerned at reaction by Maori to his Waitangi Tribunal comments.

If Labour thinks National's new five-year targets for improvements in some of New Zealand's ugliest and most depressing statistics are little more than a political gimmick, the party should think again.