A closing of some of the tabs First, a set from closing a pile of the week's accumulated stories from the Stuff papers. I wonder whether...

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...

I absolutely do not envy whoever in an incoming government gets stuck trying to fix the mess Chris Hipkins caused in the polytechs.  The pol...

The tabs... Earthquake strengthening costs on one Wellington performance venue have increased from $90m to $182m and now to $329m ( Dom , He...

I cannot count the tabs. A pruning: Danyl Mclauchlan on the depressing kludgeocratic budget. I still don't like that they're subsidi...

The tabs... Australia considering changes in governance at the Reserve Bank , including setting a Monetary Policy Committee. Hope that they ...

I was out on leave last week, touring around Lake Taupo with the family, hoping desperately for snow that didn't come.  We had fun anywa...

The worthies on the closing of the browser tabs: A database of global film subsidies . Remember that the only winning move is not to play.  ...

Today's closing of the browser tabs is also a bit of an inbox roundup. A lot of these wind up being from BusinessDesk's excellent ne...

We all know that JS Mill had some of the world's smartest people as his tutors, including Jeremy Bentham.  It may be more general among ...

The morning's browser tabs: Newsroom picks up on BusinessDesk's prior reporting on MIQ ghost rooms. Much credit goes to Cameron Co...

Dan Hamermesh always takes on the fun projects.  A decade ago, he did a pile of work looking at returns to beauty .  Now, he's looking ...

So our Joel Hernandez h as completed some more work on what's all going on in New Zealand's school system and an Auckland Uni educ...

As much as I don't look forward to Avatar sequels, I can't argue against the government's letting the film crews back in. They u...

New Zealand's today hit zero new cases of Covid-19. With appropriate upscaling of contact tracing and rigorous quarantining of newly ...

I wouldn't have expected this. And I couldn't make any sense of it until I saw the line "investments in complements to producti...

Roger Smyth, formerly head of tertiary education policy at the Ministry of Education, writes over at Times Higher Education about New Zealan...

It isn't like they weren't warned that this kind of thing could happen.  Here's John Gerritsen: Less than a third of the te...

The worthies on a very much belated closing of the tabs: Nice roundup in Nature on psychology's problems in social priming A promisin...