by Lindsay Shelton
How do you make social housing more cost effective? Chris Bishop answered his own question, by cutting the number of new social housing units to be built on the Arlington site by two thirds. Problem solved, for him… Read more »

Kali Kopae as Helena and Tawhi Thomas as Vanya

by Mary McCallum
You can’t miss it as you enter Circa One – the huge backlit disc that presides over actors and audience like a huge sun. The Uncle Vanya cast are already on the stage, which you walk straight on to at floor level. They’re greeting everyone like old friends, showing them to their seats. Read more »

by Felicity Wong
Defending intellectual autonomy, raw history, and the power of material culture is at stake in defending the old style Wellington Museum in the historic Bond Store at Queens Wharf. Read more »

by Roy Murphy
The next phase of an ambitious new project to transform New Zealand into a true democracy – one that is truly of the people, by the people and for the people – was held at Victoria University in Wellington. Read more »

by Chris Calvi-Freeman
The turkeys voted for Christmas at today’s Wellington City Council meeting. Read more »

by Chris Calvi-Freeman
The Regional Council wants to split Wellington’s central bus spine into two corridors: The Golden Mile, where all the buses currently run, and a new “Harbour Quays bus corridor” along Customhouse Quay, Jervois Quay, Cable Street and Wakefield Street between Whitmore Street and Kent and Cambridge Terraces. Read more »

by Felicity Wong
Wellington City Councillors will this week vote on green-lighting a fundraising campaign to strip the beloved Bond Store of its museum. Read more »

Jenny Williams. Photo by Roy Murphy

by Roy Murphy
The Wellington book launch at Unity Books of a fictional AI agent competing for a literary prize, rapidly became a free-for-all on the virtues and vices of AI itself. Daniel Foote, founder of a new start-up investigating the risks of AI, spoke with Jenny Williams, author of House of Liars, but their audience soon took over. Read more »

by Chris Calvi-Freeman
I watched today’s meeting of the regional council transport committee, open-mouthed at the ignorance and hubris of regional councillors who have voted to proceed with the Harbour Quays bus corridor. Read more »

by Karl Tiefenbacher
The next couple of weeks will see decisions made on the “Harbour Quays project,” firstly by the soon-to-be-dismantled Regional Council (GWRC) and then by the WCC. This is worth watching closely to see whether the votes fall on the side of political ideology or on the side of logical analysis and rational thinking in the interest of all Wellingtonians. Read more »