A new Kāinga Ora complex has opened in Auckland at a cost of $1.2 million per apartment as one of New Zealand’s leading developers calls the state-run agency’s record of running up billions in debt a ...

It was only a few months ago UK Labour won in a landslide (helped by FPP). The next election is many years away, but they have a problem that their brand has turned negative so quickly, that it could ...

The debate over whether Maori Chiefs intended to cede sovereignty when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi is an academic debate, that doesn't actually impact whether or not the NZ Government today is ...

Prof Rainsborough's dispute with King's College began in late 2018 when he organised 'Endangered Speeches', a speakers' series on the growth of over cancel culture. He said he was 'hauled over the ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon today announced the appointment of Sir Brian Roche as the next Public Service Commissioner. ... This is no surprise, except how long it took. Roche was, to many, the ...

A reader e-mailed the Minister of Transport (and me) the following: 7.6c per kilometre (plus a processing fee) as Road User Charges for electric vehicles was not a clever idea. Why? Simple answer; an ...

Never thought I'd by writing this, but Grant Robertson is becoming my favourite Vice-Chancellor. Critic reports: The University of Otago’s stance of “institutional neutrality” on Israel’s actions in ...

Wellington Combined Taxis Ltd has gone into voluntary administration. Sad news. They were the taxi company I always used, before Uber came along. Sadly they failed to keep up with technology. If they ...

No states have flipped in the last two days but Arizona and North Carolina have trended a bit more towards Trump and Pennsylvania towards Harris. This marginally helps Harris in my view as ...

I've published at Patreon the results of an exclusive poll on how people would vote in a referendum on a four year term vs three year term. These exclusive poll results are put on my Patreon because ...

The table above shows the polling averages from the six leading forecast sites in the US. It is as close as you can get. Three have Trump winning, and three have Harris winning. The most common ...

Don Brash was Governor to 2002 when numbers were dropping. Allan Bollard was 2002 – 2012 with numbers up around 5 FTEs a year. Graham Wheeler 2012- 2017 with numbers flat. Adrian Orr from 2018 with ...