AKA: Our actual spending to try and improve things is tiny! AKA: The current government is a very long way from keeping their promises to reduce the spend on bureaucracy. 1. Our government education ...

Fascinating to compare the tariffs imposed by Donald Trump on two countries. Country A Has zero tariffs on US imports Has a Free Trade Agreement with the United States Imports ($34.6 billion) twice as ...

In 2017, the geniuses of the Labour Party decided to have an experiment. They said, let's cut the prison population by 30%. Someone (hopefully) said, you mean by reducing serious crime by 30%? But the ...

The White House released a list of countries and the tariff rates they charged the US. It was clearly wrong as NZ has an average tariff of around 1.7% on US imports and the list said 20%. I thought it ...

President Trump has announced massive tariffs on most countries, including a 10% tariff on all NZ exports to the US. The table he released claims that NZ imposes an average 20% tariff on US goods.

The Government is accelerating Local Water Done Well for the Wellington region to provide greater transparency at Wellington Water and ensure it is delivering value for money for ratepayers, say Local ...

A submitter known only as “Amy” has schooled the Commerce Commission on a regulatory change that could, she says, cause her parents grief. The commission said earlier this week that it is assessing wh ...

Edelman reports on their annual trust survey in institutions. The net trust for each institution (60+ is trust, under 50 is is distrust) is: Business 54 NGOs 53 Government 45 Media 35 What is ...

Tauranga City Council has copped some backlash after accepting a five-year contract for coffee machines and coffee at a total cost of $470,000.

The founder of The Spinoff, Duncan Greive, says he has been put on notice of a potential defamation claim from news publisher Stuff after a stand-off – stemming from an exclusive report last December ...

Auckland Council Commissioners turned down consent for an 11 storey building on K-road – a decision labelled by Chris Bishop as “insane”. Hayden Donnell covers it well: The Da Vincis of denial weren’t ...

The article, released on Friday and written by Otago University Professor Nick Wilson, researcher Dr John Horrocks and George Thomson, discusses the growing international concern around impaired ...