No current MPs have had significant demotions, but there has been some movement with Andrew Hoggard up 2 and Todd Stephenson down 2. Both in very winnable places. On the current average of the public ...
Embedded below is a very brief Reader's Survey. Grateful if you can take two minutes to complete it. Keen to both get a demographic profile of who is currently reading Kiwiblog, but also to understand ...
Three years ago I argued in favour of pricing congested roads. At the time it was largely a debate about whether Auckland should introduce congestion charging at all. That debate has moved on. The ...
Cass, it is interesting to note Russia, Japan and Poland are relatively free of illegal migrants from Africa. Those countries which are overrun with fighting age males have dismal armed forces and in ...
Data centres turn renewable electricity into exportable machine intelligence - a modern extension of New Zealand’s long history of exporting energy embodied in products. • Few direct jobs relative to ...
A reader writes in: t may be just me, but the debate about Ai at the moment feels very Douglas Adams and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. So, I had a long discussion with Ai about the situation, ...
The latest QV property data supported what many around the country are feeling: house prices have fallen another 1.7% nationally since the start of the year. This now makes the correction from peak to ...
I remember when a defibrilator was donated to the Waipawa Bowling Club 30 odd years ago. It sat on the wall in a handy position for someone to grab if needed for years. Problem was there was not one ...
The Taxpayers’ Union will host seven pre-election electorate debates across the country, live-streamed by the New Zealand Herald and hosted by former Labour MP Anna Lorck and commentator Damien Grant.
Have been sent multiple copies of this speech by the Chief Ombudsman. It has raised many many eyebrows. He is an Independent Officer of Parliament, but shouldn't claim to speak with the mana of the ...
NZ could be the second country (after the US) to pull out of the Paris Accord. Of course our exports, particularly food wine and agriculture would take a hit as other countries take the opportunity to ...
A house effect, in polling terms, is the measurement of whether polls form one company for a party differ from the average of all the other polls for that party. It isn’t bias, it is just saying this ...