David Harvey: Creeping Control

How the Department of Internal Affairs Is Building a Social Media Surveillance Regime Before Parliament Has Spoken

The Bill and the Bureaucracy

A Bill is currently before Parliament. The Social Media (Age Restricted Users) Bill proposes to require providers of designated social media platforms to take all reasonable steps to prevent users under 16 from holding accounts.

Dr Eric Crampton: Timid thinking behind the ban on prediction markets

From 2007 until about two weeks ago, New Zealand’s regulators considered prediction markets as a kind of futures market.

Then the Department of Internal Affairs decided they are gambling.

That decision makes little sense.

DTNZ: DIA blows nearly $1 million on ‘change agent’ workshops

The New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union has uncovered another case of government waste, revealing that the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) spent close to $950,000 on workshops designed to turn public servants into “change agents” by “connecting through indigenous wisdom.”