Peter Williams: The Truancy Campaign that wasn't

Why advertise if you don't measure its effectiveness?

Every day more and more taxpayers money is wasted on what can only be described as fluff.

This government seems to think the best way to solve a problem is to spend money on advertising.

The Road to Zero campaign is a classic case in point. Are they planning to build safer roads? Maybe, but not for a while, but for now let’s spend a few hundred thousand on some TV advertising telling people to drive safer.

Kerre Woodham: Lack of accountability over wasting public money has to stop

My Tuesday morning started quite well. It's not raining. Sun’s out, nice drive into the city.

And then I got to work and read the story from Wellington about the brakes being hit on the Wellington speed reduction plan, after a councillor spotted that the cost-benefit-analysis had been overstated by $250 million.