Former Wellington mayor Justin Lester says while he doesn’t intend to run for the city’s top job again, Labour has approached him about his potential candidacy and he’d “never say never”. Lester has ...
The quarterly inflation rate of 0.5% and annual inflation rate of 2.2% is acceptable, even though a bit on the high side (I think the range should be 0 to 2%). The breakdown annually is 4.5% for ...
The Judicial Conduct Commissioner has recommended a Judicial Conduct Panel be established to inquire into and report on the alleged conduct of acting District Court Judge Ema Aitken in an incident ...
Four years ago, the Biden administration promised 25 million people in rural America, like Beining, that they would get reliable access to the internet. But so far, the $42 billion Broadband Equity, ...
Henry Cooke takes a deep dive into the powers of the new Minister and Ministry for Regulation. He notes: In other words, we are leaving a world where agencies are encouraged to contact Treasury early ...
Every newly sworn-in POTUS issues Executive Orders. In fact all incoming Presidents have to formally authorise all their Cabinet and other high level appointments and so, as is traditional, the first ...
There are too many meetings in the public service, too many layers of management, too much duplication, not enough clarity about its role and not enough focus on outcomes, new Public Service ...
Students studying health courses at Otago University remain largely from wealthy backgrounds despite successful efforts to boost numbers of Māori and Pasifika. A study by University of Otago researche ...
New Zealand has an aging population. We need to talk about that but we can’t yet because we don’t know enough about what New Zealanders are doing. There are some things that we can get straight in ...
A mega database critical to the government's social investment approach has required a $2 million upgrade because it is creaking at the seams. The Integrated Data Infrastructure, run by Statistics New ...
PM Christopher Luxon has done his second reshuffle, and it is a pretty significant one. Changes are: Nicola Willis gains Economic Growth (formerly Economic Development) and loses Public Services Chris ...
Matt Goodwin shares some polling data. This is a real problem for the UK Government that has so far ruled one out. Support for an inquiry is 5:1 and even Labour voters over 5:1. And the views on ...