Most national holidays revolve around either somber reflections or consumerism. It is time for New Zealand to formally recognise the cultural phenomenon that best captures our national spirit: Crate ...

This week’s vote to demolish Wellington’s City to Sea Bridge is a waste of money that will needlessly remove a much-loved part of our waterfront, and replace it with an at-grade pedestrian crossing ...

This is a great achievement, and shows how critical grassroots funding is to success. To have 11,000 New Zealanders donate to you is a sign that they think you are doing a great job.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Overall score is 10/20 – possibly my worst year. However some of them were deliberately chosen as long shots or tongue in cheek – see 8, 10 and 20. I’ll do my 2025 predictions after Christmas.

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 ...

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: Let’s examine the claim that Nicola Willis has imposed an ...