A good report from the NZ Initiative that looks at whether ownership of state houses is the best way to help low income NZ families with housing. Some key extracts: Kāinga Ora manages over 77,000 ...

A lawyer who smuggled contraband into prison for a convicted rapist and murderer, who she later married, is trying again to be readmitted as a lawyer. Davina Reid (née Murray) was acting for Liam Reid ...

Some great data from the ERO on student attendance. They find: Now nearly six in ten students (58 percent) are attending regularly, up from four in ten (40 percent) in 2022. Attitudes drive attendance ...

Leaders of Young Republican groups throughout the country worried what would happen if their Telegram chat ever got leaked, but they kept typing anyway. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ...

ERO has done a report on how the changes to literacy and numeracy are going. It is over 150 pages long, but here are some key extracts: 98% of schools report they have started teaching the refreshed E ...

Following recommendations from the Science System Advisory Group, a single, independent board, called Research Funding New Zealand, will be established to make most funding decisions. “The message ...

The Government’s fees-free policy reset is at risk of following its predecessor in failing to incentivise tertiary study and only benefiting the more advantaged. The warning is included in a Ministry ...

King Charles has officially begun the process of removing all titles and honours from his brother, Prince Andrew, Buckingham Palace has announced. Andrew will from today be known as Andrew Mountbatten ...

Do yourself a favour and watch this. 🚩Winston Peters gave a long form interview to Al Jazeera mostly regarding the Palestine decision, and he kicked the gas lighting interviewer around like a hacky ...

Michael Littlewood of pensions policy fame has written a novel about his great great great grandparents - William and Tiraha. The blurb is: Paihia, 1823, and William Cook is injured, abandoned by his ...

The New Zealand Media Council has upheld a complaint from the Brewers Association of New Zealand against Radio New Zealand (RNZ), citing a breach of Principle (1) Accuracy, Fairness and Balance in its ...

The Charter School model is about improving opportunities/outcomes for "underserved" communities. The schools currently being approved in the NZ system would not be internationally recognised as ...