Wellington Council's under fire for having consulted with bars when they were setting the Local Alcohol Policy . Police are calling f...

New Zealand has a generalised problem where service providers spend a lot of time on policy advocacy. Service providers are not supposed to ...

Conspiracies and power struggles everywhere. Here's Auckland's Boyd Swinburn on the New York soda ban being overturned . Boyd Swi...

I'd love to see a study comparing the total funding of corporate astroturfs** with government astroturfs. There was much hue and cry ...

Of the cohort of fellow students going through grad school at George Mason, one of the ones who went on to reasonable financial success left...

Simon Clark finds that more than two-thirds of submissions on anti-tobacco measures in Britain were form letters from government-funded ant...