Edelman reports on their annual trust survey in institutions. The net trust for each institution (60+ is trust, under 50 is is distrust) is: Business 54 NGOs 53 Government 45 Media 35 What is ...

The article, released on Friday and written by Otago University Professor Nick Wilson, researcher Dr John Horrocks and George Thomson, discusses the growing international concern around impaired ...

The University of Sussex has been fined a record £585,000 by the higher education regulator for failing to uphold freedom of speech. Hopefully that will change the incentives somewhat. Prof Roseneil, ...

The founder of The Spinoff, Duncan Greive, says he has been put on notice of a potential defamation claim from news publisher Stuff after a stand-off – stemming from an exclusive report last December ...

The finance minister has slammed Labour regulation spokesperson Duncan Webb for opposing the fast-tracking of consenting for a new supermarket in his Christchurch electorate. Webb, who served as ...

Tauranga City Council has copped some backlash after accepting a five-year contract for coffee machines and coffee at a total cost of $470,000.

Richard Harman at Politik has this summary of data from the ASA So the advertising spend has increased a healthy 30% in five years. But the proportion spent on digital advertising has gone from 6% to ...

An Otago student has set up a petition to have disgraced Dunedin artist John Middleditch's sculpture removed from public display at the University of Otago. The large bronze sculpture created in 1969 ...

Auckland Council Commissioners turned down consent for an 11 storey building on K-road - a decision labelled by Chris Bishop as "insane". Hayden Donnell covers it well: The Da Vincis of denial weren’t ...

Tauranga MP Sam Uffindell has a simple proposed members' bill to amend the Bill of Rights Act to have equal suffrage extend to local government. Equal suffrage is a fundamental human right. The ...