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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yes, the unions were the mouthpiece outside the court on the news last night, and one woman had the audacity to apply the water works, utterly pathetic, the drives were stoked, but will lose their ...

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 ...

The deaths of three children and their father at the scene of a Manawatū house fire are being investigated as a suspected triple murder-suicide, Stuff understands. Dean Field died at a property on SH1 ...

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 ...

At Patreon, I have exclusive Wellington poll results about the Mayor, Deputy Mayor and MPs for Rongotai, Wellington Central and Ohariu.