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 ...

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 ...

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.

Hundreds of people — if not the entire population of Woodville — turned out for a public meeting in the small town to oppose plans to toll a state highway in their area. Te Ahu a Turanga, the ...

A project to replace a system that dishes out $12 billion of health payments every year is in trouble. Health NZ / Te Whatu Ora's health sector agreements and payments system was rated three years ago ...

Very amused that a company polled on how favourably people viewed empires from over 2,000 years ago. It got me thinking how I would assess them. On a favourability score out of 10, I would be. Roman ...

The Ministry of Justice is consulting on two possible changes to jury trials, to reduce the huge delays in scheduling them as the number of trials has been increasing. It now takes an average 498 days ...