The founder of The Spinoff, Duncan Greive, says he has been put on notice of a potential defamation claim from news publisher Stuff after a stand-off – stemming from an exclusive report last December ...

The University of Sussex has been fined a record £585,000 by the higher education regulator for failing to uphold freedom of speech. Hopefully that will change the incentives somewhat. Prof Roseneil, ...

The finance minister has slammed Labour regulation spokesperson Duncan Webb for opposing the fast-tracking of consenting for a new supermarket in his Christchurch electorate. Webb, who served as ...

Tauranga City Council has copped some backlash after accepting a five-year contract for coffee machines and coffee at a total cost of $470,000. So easy to spend other people's money!

Auckland Council Commissioners turned down consent for an 11 storey building on K-road - a decision labelled by Chris Bishop as "insane". Hayden Donnell covers it well: The Da Vincis of denial weren’t ...

The latest CNN/SRSS poll has the Democrats historically unfavourable. That is an awful trend. So in Bush’s second term, they were very popular. Then they fell away in Obama’s first term, rebounded, ...

Richard Harman at Politik has this summary of data from the ASA So the advertising spend has increased a healthy 30% in five years. But the proportion spent on digital advertising has gone from 6% to ...

On Friday night in Takapuna, I had the opportunity to sit and have a, nearly four-hour, conversation with Sir Bob Geldof. He also sang a few tunes for me. I didn’t have much to say back – except much ...

Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell has a simple proposed members' bill to amend the Bill of Rights Act to have equal suffrage extend to local government. Equal suffrage is a fundamental human right. The ...

Some useful recommendations from the LGNZ working group on local elections. Move to a nationally consistent system of in-person voting for all local elections that is as similar as possible to ...

Western Bay of Plenty District Council is the latest council to leave national advocacy body Local Government New Zealand. There were claims LGNZ had become "extremely political", had swung "far left" ...

Interesting data by Universities NZ, looking at average income by qualification and field of study. So what is the average salary gain for a qualification, from the previous level: Certificate $7k Dip ...