I was pleased to see the Government announce the speed limit for Transmission Gully would be consulted on increasing to 110 km/hr. New motorways are built to safety standards where this is a safe ...

About half an hour into Auckland Council’s debate on upzoning the city centre last week, mayor Wayne Brown looked up with a puzzled look on his face. He didn’t get why planners were telling his ...

The Government is amending the Public Finance Act to prevent future governments concealing the extent of fiscal risks in government accounts, Finance Minister Nicola Willis says. The change is ...

I've just published on Patreon (paywalled) the May 2025 summary of the polls in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and US. The Australian and Canadian Governments are having honeymoons for their ...

As powerless ratepayers face the ongoing tyranny of marxist councils over rates bills and the local government minister's repeated demands for sensible spending fall on deaf ears, the Prime Minister ...

This june may be the most harried for the Supreme Court’s justices in some time. On top of 30-odd rulings due by Independence Day, the court faces a steady stream of emergency pleas. Over 16 years, ...

I got sent this chart, and found it interesting. The high level of Maori offending is well known. What I hadn't known previously was the vast difference between Asian and Indian offending. Often these ...

Consider the economics of the restaurant industry. Alcohol offers higher profit margins than food as it requires less labour to prepare. Indeed, using official American data, your columnist estimates ...

The House has voted to suspend Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke for seven days, Rawiri Waititi for 21 days and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer for 21 days. The punishment was not for doing a haka. MPs can and do do ...

Stuff owner Sinead Boucher has sold 50% of Stuff Digital to Trade Me, which in turn is 100% owned by Apax Partners, a British private equity firm with around US$77 billion in assets. Good on Boucher.

The government has issued its final decision on Christchurch City Council's bid to carve its own path out of national housing intensification rules. Minister Chris Bishop rejected 14 of the council's ...

Tomlinson, who is a former paramedic, had only been in Countdown for a few minutes when he heard yelling and screaming. Initially he thought it was children yelling or a domestic. A young man ran ...