The Government’s advice on how to combat COVID-19 spread is cutting more and more into our “normal” lives. Do we have to do what it says, and why?

Andrew Little’s law change to stop foreign influence in New Zealand elections really won’t do very much. So it probably shouldn’t be raced into law so quickly.

Revelations about the funding relationship between the New Zealand First Party and the New Zealand First Foundation suggest that either our election law has been broken, or that law itself is broken and needs fixed.

It turns out that the real enemy of free speech in New Zealand is local government corporatisation. Who is going to tell Don Brash, Stephen Franks and Jordan Williams?

The Speaker has applied a silly rule to stop National making fun of Labour MPs on Facebook. That’s largely Simon Bridges' fault.

If the public are to decide whether to permit aid in dying in New Zealand, they should be asked a proper question. And that question is, do they want the only law that is on offer?

Should a councillor kicked out of office for criminal offending be able to ask the voters to re-elect him? Well, what sort of criminal offence are we talking about?

Should we care if companies owned by foreign nationals can donate to political parties when foreign nationals can’t do it themselves? And if we do, what can we do about it?

The 2018 census did not do its job properly. But we shouldn’t use that fact to undermine other important institutions and processes.

In laying out how poorly conceived was the law banning prisoners from voting and just how negatively it affects Māori in particular, the Waitangi Tribunal presents us with a fierce reminder of the need for change.