Nick Clark of the NZ Initiative has a good report on how democracy doesn't work well at local government level. He gives some examples: Wellington City Council requires a Crown Observer to address ...

Wood, a former Labour MP and Minister for Auckland, told councillors it was important that the union got to have a say in how a Time of Use Charge would look, as it has 150,000 members in the city and ...

Carr, who ends his five-year tenure as the commission’s first chair on Sunday, was also given an opportunity for a parting message to policymakers by the select committee. “What my kids would say is I ...

This woke nonsense puts off companies from even tendering for work, and just means councils put up rates to pay for more staff to assess this crap. There's basically three things only a council should ...

This week, the Treasury barred representatives from the Council of Trade Unions and the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union from attending its restricted briefing for the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update ...

My 2024 predictions were here. How did I do. The three parties of Government will outpoll the three parties of opposition in at least 90% of public polls in 2024. Was around 80% only so 0/1 The 2024 ...

The GDP data is bad - very bad. The economy has shrunk in the last two quarters. The question is why. There are two broad arguments. They are: This is due to the austerity regime of Nicola Willis and ...

Charity regulators have moved to deregister high-profile social services provider Waipareira, concluding a long-running investigation into its funding of chief executive John Tamihere’s political ...

Labour’s finance spokeswoman Barbara Edmonds has replaced a graph that incorrectly stated the Ardern-Hipkins Government reduced New Zealand’s debt levels by about $31 billion in its second term. ...