The WCC website lists the Mayoral expenses for the Mayor of Wellington. They state that there has been $263,369.31 of expenses for the Mayor since October 2022, which is a staggering amount. I do ...

The Government has published targets and minimum levels to be achieved for charter schools. A charter school that doesn't achieve these minimum levels can have its registration cancelled, which is a ...

A woman who assaulted an NZME journalist outside a courthouse has been sentenced to 18 months’ jail, but is expected to be released almost immediately because of time served while awaiting sentencing.

A majority of Gazans believe Hamas’ decision to launch the Oct. 7 attack on Israel was incorrect, according to a poll published on Tuesday pointing to a big drop in backing for the assault that ...

Defenders of the massive 20% rates increase in Wellington would have you believe this has nothing to do with decisions made by Councillors, but it was instead just due to the need to spend more on ...

After the jury note in the Polkinghorne Trial was read out, I commented on Twitter it is hard to see a guilty verdict based on it. In fact the nature of the question was so easy to answer, that I ...

There are calls from some Wellington businesses for the Government to follow the lead of one of the world’s biggest companies - Amazon - and order workers to stop working from home. It could be “the ...

Capping the sentence discounts that judges can apply at 40 per cent when considering mitigating factors unless it would result in manifestly unjust sentencing outcomes. This is much needed. Some ...

I wrote this post before the jury delivered a verdict, but after the conclusion of evidence. It will only be published after the verdict is announced (which was just announced as not guilty). Like ...

An interesting article in Nature about the impact of Nature endorsing Joe Biden in 2020. Overall, the study provides little evidence that the endorsement changed participants’ views of the candidates.

There's been quite a lot of attention on the September 2024 Taxpayers' Union - Curia poll that showed a significant dip for Chris Hipkins as Preferred PM, and with his favourability. Now it is only ...

Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau has confirmed she did not sell her car to pay the bills before he office clarified that, in fact, she did. So last week on radio she said she did sell her car to pay her ...