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Originally published by The Spinoff . Creative New Zealand recently announced a massive funding restructure. Here’s what it means and what artists and sector...
Robbie looks at who informs the public about what is happening in New Zealand and what needs to be fixed. It’s journalists - the teachers for adults.
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The Dotcom decade - and what it has cost the taxpayer 8 minutes to read The Government's lawyers have spent 40,500 hours working on Megaupload- and Kim Dotcom-related cases over the past decade. If those lawyers were working 40-hour weeks, the effort exerted would be 19 years and six months of work - or two lawyers constantly working full time over the entire period the drama has unfolded. If lawyers were builders, the work invested could have seen 40 houses built. If the case was theatre - which at times it has been - then 20 productions could have been staged. Data release...