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The Green Party is embarking on a big conversation about whether its co-leadership model is fit for purpose.

The New Zealand herald front page last Monday. Photo: PHOTO / RNZ Mediawatch Last week, the ‘Unite to Fight Covid-19’ ads were nominated in this year’s Axis Awards for New Zealand advertising in the category of ‘Best Brand Experience & Activation’.   The yellow-and-white striped ads - telling us to wash hands and stay home, stay safe and so on - were also nominated in the Best Billboard category.  The campaign was widely regarded as money well spent when the curve was getting crushed and the elimination strategy seemed to be working last year.  UK-based design guru Alice Rawst...

More evidence that UBIs work The report is back on another Universal Basic Income trial, this time in the USA. And as with the others, it shows that this policy works: After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and reported lower rates of anxiety and depression, according to a study released Wednesday.[…] When the program started in February 2019, 28% of the people slated to get the free money had full-time jobs. One year later, 40% of those people had full-time jobs. A control group of people who d...

New Zealand's Covid-19 communications response has been hailed the world over, but as the messages become muddled and more complicated the cracks are starting to show.

The Government has a leave support scheme that provides one-off payments to employers to help cover the costs of their employee being off work.