My column at Newsroom last week gave a roundup of the sessions I attended at the NZAE meetings where the results might be of interest to a b...

About a decade ago, Canada's Counsellor for Immigration at the High Commission in Canberra came to Wellington to explain how Canada'...

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 ...

Closing the tabs so I can find the ones I really do need... Using hoards of ancient coins to trace out historic trade networks Left-wing pop...

Hayden over at The Spinoff asked me what the government can do to make the economy 'a bit less shit'. I sent an overlong reply; he e...

I'm not convinced that there's a real problem to be addressed by ACT's immigration policy.   I also don't see it doing much ...

Combine a points-based migration system that welcomes higher-earning younger people with progressive tax systems and you get a result like t...

Last week, on The Platform, Auckland Uni's Prof of Macroeconomics blamed my shop for the government's not adopting his proposal to c...

There are a lot of metrics folks can use when evaluating policy. "Will this policy break the internet" is an important one. At lea...

Yesterday, I went through what I see as a trilemma for age-gating social media access .  A system putting obligations and liability on socia...

New Zealand's newspaper chiefs' views on how the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill works is somewhat at odds with the text of the Bi...

The closing of the browser tabs: The Commerce Commission blocks NZ DJ software company Serato from selling out to Japanese DJ product com...

There are a lot of problems with the Paul Goldsmith / Willie Jackson media bargaining bill.  I hit on some of those over in the Stuff papers...

A selection as I read through the morning papers. Twenty-three MPs claim an accommodation allowance to stay in their own Wellington properti...

A closing of the browser tabs: New Zealand's space industry keeps growing. Here's BusinessDesk on Dawn Aerospace . So neat.  Americ...

Every bit of this seems insane. And people wonder why productivity is falling through the floor.  Energy News reports that the Environment C...

Kainga Ora is the government's house building agency. It's been building a lot of social housing. Kainga Ora has its own (but indepe...

Stuff's Federico Magrin does a whip-round on the updated Treasury estimates of net fiscal impact by income decile .  An early version o...

The afternoon's worthies: Immigration restrictions on spousal work rights are dangerous. 28 months jail for tobacco smuggling Pseudoephe...

More bits as I clear through the tabs.  Kevin Rudd's view on south Pacific security. 20,000 hard refusals on the 2023 census, up from 60...