The US Government has announced they will allow 50 year mortgages, to try and help aspiring home owners. A 50 year mortgage is a terrible idea. It means people are going to be paying off a mortgage ...

While political affiliation makes people more biased towards speakers who share their views, it affects their overall willingness to let speakers speak, regardless of ideology, very little. But ...

This is a heads up that from next month, I am going to make a change to assumptions about electorate seats for any NZ political polls by Curia. This post explains why. Up until the end of 2024, Curia ...

Act is that a party leader needs the support of two thirds of their MPs to expel an MP from Parliament. S55D(c) of the Electoral Act says that a statement by the leader must: state that, after conside ...

Stuff has details of the transport plan by the Government for Wellington. It is brilliant. The noisy people against are a small minority. Many polls have shown strong support for increasing the ...

Nathan Boulter has pleaded guilty to murdering a Christchurch woman. I have followed Boulter for a while, because he kidnapped and held hostage his former girlfriend on Great Barrier Island in 2010.

I sent in an OIA to Crown Law on the 16th of October asking: any communication between Crown Law and the Broadcasting Standards Authority around whether a person who publishes audio and video over the ...

Tourism New Zealand is spending $6.3 million to bring the Michelin Guide – the world’s most famous restaurant ranking system – to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown. Inspectors have ...

A Summary of Cameron Bagrie’s Business Desk Piece on Education (all quotes below)- Do we have equality of opportunity in schooling? We’d like to think so. I’ve heard many politicians talk about it. We ...

The Government has saved the taxpayer billions with two new Interislander ferries from Guangzhou Shipyard International and no-nonsense infrastructure in Picton and Wellington, Rail Minister Winston ...

Readers may recall a decade or so ago Brian Tamaki blamed an earthquake on gay marriage. He was rightfully mocked for this. It's both crass and lunacy to blame something like an earthquake on whether ...

On the 6th of November at 3 pm Mike Davidson gave his maiden speech as a new Green Party MP in Wellington. At 4 pm he was meant to be getting sworn in at the inaugural meeting of the Waipapa ...