Forsyth Barr did a survey of businesses, and had around 1,500 responses. Someone sent me a link to the summary. Some interesting aspects: 51% say economy heading in the right direction and 19% wrong 5 ...

Labour’s leader Chris Hipkins has committed to reviving the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill, which has been left languishing on Parliament’s order paper since 2024, and said the party will campaign ...

Richard Prebble asked ChatGPT to score the last two Governments on how they had performed in key areas. The summary is: Cost of Living: Labour-led: 10/30, National:led: 19/30 Health: Labour-led: 10/20 ...

A new paper examining the future of New Zealand Superannuation has found that, if left unchanged, the scheme could consume more than 30% of the Government’s tax revenue every year by 2065 and will be ...

A must read Facebook post from a small business owner, whose business Chloe wants to confiscate off her. Aroha Tahau writes: Dear Chlöe, I have been up since 4am this morning. It is raining. I am 16 ...

Attorney-General Chris Bishop spoke to the Law Association on August 6. Solicitor-General Anna Adams, KC, spoke to the Legal Research Foundation last Thursday. Both answered emphatically: making the ...

Nicky's Hager's last book had an enquiry led by a former Supreme Court Judge, and a former Attorney General and Prime Minister. They concluded that the “principal allegations” in Hager’s book “are not ...

I wasn't going to blog again on the Hager book as it was already clear he had so many things absolutely wrong. But three more things today are too noteworthy to pass by. 1) Nick Mowbray has denied abs ...

Very little to say here as the data speaks for itself. I would be interested in what people think the explanations are. For the odd person who states that ethnicity differences are due to IQ – they ...

lol classic- I agree with the article- but at least they have fixed some issues, it was a loooong list Liemore created- the worst Government NZ has ever seen. The collation has a lot more to do- let’s ...

A real estate agent on the verge of losing her licence after being denied an exemption from a compulsory Māori tikanga course said if she had her time again, she would still refuse to do it. “It’s ...

NCEA Reform: A High-Stakes Risk for Maori, Pasifika and the poor. As the great Midnight Oil sung; “The rich get richer, the poor get the picture …”. And, as the great education researcher, John Hattie ...