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!

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...

The Chief Ombudsman has done proactive investigations of seven agencies in regard to how they deal with OIA requests. This isn't just about data, but also culture. The key findings for each are: Treas ...

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 ...

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 ...

The press and left call the right “culture warriors,” but we were not the ones who put pornographic material in elementary schools. We were not the ones who demanded kids in colleges attend seminars ...

The Broadcasting Standards Authority has found Stuff in breach of multiple broadcasting standards for a hatchet job on ASH - Action on Smoking and Health. Basically what it all goes back to is that ...

The Government’s move to cut public sector spending on consultants and contractors is on track to save $800 million over two years – double the initial target, Public Service Minister Judith Collins ...

An Otago student has set up a petition to have disgraced Dunedin artist John Middleditch's sculpture removed from public display at the University of Otago. The large bronze sculpture created in 1969 ...

Claimed that James Shaw asked her to run for Wellington Central (He didn’t) Claimed that she was paying over half her Councillor salary in rent for one out of five bedrooms in Aro Valley (She wasn’t) ...