The Planning Bill and Natural Environment Bill promise simpler rules, faster consents and a sharper focus on property rights.

In court, they opened up 53 wrongfully cast ballots. Fifty of them had gone to the winning side.

After two years of major housing, infrastructure and planning reforms, Chris Bishop may have done more for the abundance agenda than any other politician on the planet.

Two National finance ministers, three decades apart, are locking horns. But just how different is the political environment of today to the time of the juggernaut?

The government is hailing a 'once-in-a-generation opportunity to finally unburden ourselves from the millstone weighing down our country'.

Highlights from a wild week of concerts and festivals in Melbourne – most of which bypassed Aotearoa completely.

Josie Shapiro's follow-up to Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts is one for the ageing millennials whose lives haven't turned out as planned.

'I feel a responsibility to tell interesting and engaging stories that highlight my culture and create opportunities for us to be seen in different context.'

It might have been cosy on Graham Norton's couch, but the British newspapers were divided.