Chris Penk announced: "Right now, councils are hesitant to sign off on building consents and inspections because they could be held liable for all defects, leaving ratepayers to foot the bill. “This ...

In August each year I receive a large raw data-set from the Ministry of Education - and process it into a highly informative and useful form for schools, families, politicians and other education ...

The Herald has a story about how someone with indecency convictions passed registation as a teacher, seemingly due to the Clean Slate Act. The timeline is: 2002: Convicted of three counts of ...

Five years on from the onset of the pandemic, it is becoming clear the Government’s finances are suffering from long Covid – not just a Covid hangover. Many Kiwis have taken their medicine – stomached ...