The finance minister has slammed Labour regulation spokesperson Duncan Webb for opposing the fast-tracking of consenting for a new supermarket in his Christchurch electorate. Webb, who served as ...

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. So easy to spend other people's money!

Richard Harman at Politik has this summary of data from the ASA So the advertising spend has increased a healthy 30% in five years. But the proportion spent on digital advertising has gone from 6% to ...

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 Chief Ombudsman has done proactive investigations of seven agencies in regard to how they deal with OIA requests. This isn't just about data, but also culture. The key findings for each are: Treas ...

Western Bay of Plenty District Council is the latest council to leave national advocacy body Local Government New Zealand. There were claims LGNZ had become "extremely political", had swung "far left" ...

Interesting data by Universities NZ, looking at average income by qualification and field of study. So what is the average salary gain for a qualification, from the previous level: Certificate $7k Dip ...

The latest CNN/SRSS poll has the Democrats historically unfavourable. That is an awful trend. So in Bush’s second term, they were very popular. Then they fell away in Obama’s first term, rebounded, ...

Some useful recommendations from the LGNZ working group on local elections. Move to a nationally consistent system of in-person voting for all local elections that is as similar as possible to ...

The press and left call the right “culture warriors,” but we were not the ones who put pornographic material in elementary schools. We were not the ones who demanded kids in colleges attend seminars ...

Jerry Coyne has found a wonderful new research paper. The abstract is: This article offers a queer lesbian feminist analysis attuned to lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities. Specifically, the ...

Good to see the Greens focusing on the issues that really matter to NZers, such as abolishing the Police!