Is Tony Abbott right to suggest that indigenous people are living in remote communities as a 'lifestyle choice'. And what's with the onion?

It's not just Vladamir Putin - have all the worlds leaders been replaced by aliens with lizard like tongues who live off onions?

A licence for those using the self-service queue in supermarkets is one of the many ideas discussed in this week's 'What's the Big Idea?'

A Sierra Leone athlete who came to Britain for the Commonwealth Games, is facing deportation. It's reminiscent of a 1960s Aussie athlete who also found himself trapped in the UK.

In a populist move ahead of the next election, the UK government is calling for more leniency when it comes to traffic fines.

The Tory MP at the centre of Plebgate has had to pay out £80,000 in damages to the policeman he called a Pleb.

New Zealand customs has made a request for powers to demand the right for travellers' laptop passwords. 

The Bay of Plenty Haka group, called Te Whanau-a-Apanui, won the National Haka championships this weekend.

Whilst Australia seems unconcerned about the TPPA, over the ditch the Kiwis are up in arms and have taken to the streets.

Residents of West Auckland have rallied together to protect a 500 year old Kauri tree. Local authorities want it to be chopped to make way for two new houses.