Greens correct $800m tax policy error after IRD cost counted as revenue
The correction reduces the party’s projected net revenue by about $200 million a year, or roughly $800 million over four years.
Centrist
Taxpayer-funded groups mobilise against NZ First’s man and woman definitions bill
Should the undefined concept of gender identity become a competing legal category?
Baker links H5N1 warning to New Zealand’s rejection of WHO health rules
Readers should distinguish between the health risk itself and the political prescription being attached to it.
NZ organisations warned AI will sharply increase cyber risks
AI is “not a future consideration” but already here.
National’s KiwiSaver plan would force self-employed workers to contribute 4%
"A blunt instrument..."
UN climate levies on shipping and aviation raise taxation without representation concerns
The question is whether unelected international bodies are creating compulsory costs that nations merely administer.
Trade Depot apologises after job ad required Hindi or Punjabi
“Those languages should have been described as an advantage for this role, not a requirement.”
Franks seeks law change after Law Society case over puberty blocker criticism
Franks says professional bodies should be politically and ideologically neutral, and should not misuse their powers to punish unfashionable views.
Were ministers following the science, or the politics, on teen COVID vaccinations? Pt 2
The Ministry of Health has provided a detailed list of ministers and officials who it says attended a key Vaccine Ministers meeting. But it also says the meeting was not minuted and no notes exist. Another agency denies that the meeting even happened.
Jones’ $63,000 Canada trip approved months later after officials chased explanation
“Provoke the matua at your peril.”
Mitchell backs High Court ruling that gang patches cannot be returned
“It is Parliament that makes the law.”
National cites eating disorders and self-harm to justify digital ID and total online surveillance
“Every minute that we waste, another young girl has been fed awful information about her weight and her looks.”
Senior bureaucrats pushed aside staff who challenged Immigration IT project boondoggle
“We have doubts..."
Auckland speed-limit study claims fewer crashes under lower limits
Welch estimated that the lower limits prevented 138 crashes, including 29 serious injuries and four deaths.
Brown clears out Medical Council leadership over ‘privilege’ and ‘dismantle’ agenda
“Kiwis expect the Medical Council to be focused on strengthening the medical workforce, not on an ideological agenda.”
New Zealand among world’s biggest infrastructure spenders but near bottom for efficiency
“Every time the plan changes, we lose time, we lose money, and we lose the skilled people who build these things.”