Outcome-based contracting would have solved this: A stop smoking provider says the decision to cut its contract on the basis it has refused ...

StatsNZ has put up its year-end accounts for the government, split out across functional areas.  Their data goes back to 2009 in the main ta...

It would have been just one bad part of an overarching very silly policy. Exempting it from the policy regime I suppose makes the policy a b...

Back in 2012, Seamus Hogan and I were ...mildly sceptical... of proposals to build a giant convention centre in Christchurch. Seamus wrote: ...

A friend asked about my zealotry on age-gating social media and why internet anonymity/pseudonymity should be protected.  I sent this throug...

Locked at the bottom of a dark well is a beautiful-looking idea.  "Set discount rates to very low levels when thinking about intergener...

Being able to speak online freely, under a pseudonym, is an important backstop for freedom of speech. If government turns repressive, or ban...