A few years ago, Willie Jackson proposed levying tech platforms to fund news outlets.  I'd warned that this kind of thing amounts to a d...

The government has not yet announced what it wants to do in the online child-protection space. There's a member's bill endorsed by L...

Ages ago I supervised a superb Honours thesis, which turned into a Masters, looking at the lesbian wage premium. It showed up regularly in t...

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith at The Spinoff asked me what I thought the options might be for dealing with rising superannuation costs.  Her story...

I do not see the problem here. I do see a lot of ways of creating a problem though. Andrew Bevin writes for Newsroom: Ministers were warned ...

A few minor bits I noted in looking through the budget - won't bother going through the headline stuff that will have been well covered ...

A decade ago, I coauthored a report looking at how greater localism and subsidiarity could be achieved in a very centralised country where l...