Brian Cartmell

Every dollar of the New Zealand Government’s $141.7 billion spend in 2024/25, broken down interactively — from NZ Super to defence.

If the election were held today — seats, blocs and the balance of power, from every major New Zealand poll.

An independent, balanced guide to the New Zealand–India Free Trade Agreement: what’s in it, its current status, the case for, the case against, and how to have your say.

What’s proposed, where it’s up to, and what it would mean for your household — plain English, both sides, plus a poll and a parents’ guide.

A modern tax architecture for New Zealand: no tax on earned income — the load carried by land value, consumption and corporate privilege, with the government’s own numbers.

Open weights, distributed freely: the public index for open-weight AI model torrents — magnet links, infohashes and rich metadata for openly licensed LLMs, diffusion, audio and embedding models.

Will .nz be taken away from InternetNZ? An independent, evidence-based scorecard measuring formal process risk under the 2016 MBIE–InternetNZ MoU and RFC 1591.

100,000 km² of potential: the resource beneath the Southern Ocean, and the sovereign wealth fund New Zealand never built.