Chris Penk announced: "Right now, councils are hesitant to sign off on building consents and inspections because they could be held liable for all defects, leaving ratepayers to foot the bill. “This ...

In August each year I receive a large raw data-set from the Ministry of Education - and process it into a highly informative and useful form for schools, families, politicians and other education ...

The Herald has a story about how someone with indecency convictions passed registation as a teacher, seemingly due to the Clean Slate Act. The timeline is: 2002: Convicted of three counts of ...

Five years on from the onset of the pandemic, it is becoming clear the Government’s finances are suffering from long Covid – not just a Covid hangover. Many Kiwis have taken their medicine – stomached ...

Erica Stanford made the pretty obvious decision that books designed to teach kids English should use English words, and the usual suspects are claiming it is everything from white supremacy to ...

I blogged in early August on how MPs appear to have been scared into supporting a retrospective law change to protect ANZ and ASB Banks form a six year old law suit over their failure to make correct ...

Will he look into getting rid of seatbelts in cars? What about aircraft safety briefings? We ask how far is too far for the Regulation Minister’s red tape crusade. A lot of people seem to have got out ...

Chlöe Swarbrick became a distraction from the debate on Palestine during a crucial week in which Israel stepped up bombardments of Gaza City and New Zealand began debating a huge issue. But ...

Protesting outside someone's home is set to be made an offence, with the government introducing new legislation carrying fines or jail sentences if people target private residences. While it will ...

KiwiRail has settled with Hyundai Mipo Dockyard with a $144 million final payment following the cancellation of the Project iRex ferries. In a press statement, Rail Minister Winston Peters was highly ...

I recently discovered that perhaps the most vocal and unabashed proxy in New Zealand for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lives in a street adjoining my own. His name is Morgan Xiao and while I don’t ...