into perspective a 10% pay disparity means women working fulltime in New Zealand would effectively stop being paid from today, while men similarly employed would stay on the payroll until the end of year. More&gt;&gt; "While the Ministry of Education's new payroll project is still in its early stages, the number of issues resulting from the payroll transition has been unacceptable. The review will be comprehensive and thorough," says Mr Foss. More&gt;&gt; The controversial oil and gas discovery technique known as fracking is safe when conducted to best practice standards, says the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, in an interim report. More&gt;&gt; By now, we've come to recognize Prime Minister John Key's typical response to bad news, which is to (a) claim the real figures aren't in yet, so any verdict would be premature. A job loss spiral in manufacturing? Let's wait and see what the Household Labour Force Survey says. And if that's bad, we'll call it a trough and express optimism that the upswing can't be far away now... More&gt;&gt; I got more information than I was expecting from the Transport Agency at its public information day -- one of the friendly Agency people told me they're designing a new Basin Reserve grandstand as part of their flyover plans. The pale angled lines show the site they've chosen for the new stand. More&gt;&gt; MR KEY No, what I'd say is if you go and look at the Household Labour Force Survey, it's one way of measuring