The afternoon's worthies:
- How universities killed the academic. Great piece.
- NZ Drug Foundation's report on drug use in 2022/23. One fun bit if you check back against the NZ Health Survey data: more people aged 15-24 (7.7%) use cannabis at least weekly than smoke tobacco (5.8%) at least monthly.
- Making Kiwisaver compulsory will be great for the default providers who get to clip tickets on fees I suppose. Not so hot for those with US tax entanglements.
- Mayor Whanau presides over a council that blew hundreds of millions of dollars on town hall, library, convention centre, and is turning itself into a bank to provide cut-rate loans to a multinational movie theatre company, and blames stingy ratepayers for the pipes falling apart.
- Probably not good that Russia's still occupying that Ukrainian nuclear plant.
- Really neat paper on the adoption of property tax codes across Canadian First Nations, along with institutional detail on the First Nations Tax Commission and the First Nations Fiscal Management Act.
