Jock Anderson remembers a time when violent attacks on police officers were condemned and not brushed off by slick lawyers paid to find ways of shifting the blame.

If the country has just voted for three more years of the status quo, one area where that is not nearly good enough is climate policy.

Cunliffe has yet to develop the necessary horizontal management skills to lead the Labour caucus and head Opposition efforts to hold the Prime Minister's feet to the fire, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

KiwiSaver withdrawals to help with buying a first home are handled by the KiwiSaver providers so I talked to Joe Bishop, head of retail and marketing at Gareth Morgan Investments, about your options.

Five things for business to take on board while John Key relishes his victory and forms his next Government.

Liam dann writes: If New Zealand is "on the cusp" of something exciting, as John Key has promised, then it is on the economy which we should now be expecting him to deliver.

This week a nation heads to the polls for one of the most important votes in its history, Liam Dann writes.

Do you vote on your back pocket? A good chunk of the country does, writes Diana Clement. So what do each of the parties have on offer for you?

What should an inflation-targeting central bank do when inflation is proving unexpectedly slow to make an appearance?

When I casually mentioned that I might trade in my old truck for a later model, my children immediately said, "Get a matt-black Hilux, Dad!"

The Reserve Bank still sees interest rate increases in our future but fewer and further between than it foreshadowed three months ago, writes Brian Fallow.

This morning the Business Herald relaunches its online homepage with a host of new features and content to keep you better informed - both on desktop and mobile.

The Productivity Commission has been sent back into the minefield of housing costs.

Here we are again, hearts in our mouths, as we watch an international commodity slump knock the shine off New Zealand's economic recovery.

The article by Liam Dann in the Herald on August 25, "TV war not so fierce in real world", caught my eye.

The National Party's pitch for a third term boils down to the slogan: Don't mess with success.

Was there a conspiracy to defeat the course of justice after the collapse of the Hanover Group of companies?

The June 2014 reporting season is over, the results have been counted and analysed.

How's this for an anomaly: if a commercial property is munted in an earthquake, and maybe even kills someone, it gives rise to a tax deduction, but seismic strengthening work to reduce the risk of that happening does not.

Just how far we still are from political consensus on climate policy was evident at a pre-election debate on the issue organised by Business New Zealand in Auckland on Tuesday.

Why are dairy prices falling? Well, if you read industry commentary from places like the United States and Europe they know who's to blame. It's us.

Exporters can only hope that the economic news out of the United States this week will reinforce, or at least not reverse.

Xi Jinping's version of what the move to the free market means China-style is said to come down to the "invisible hand of the market guided by the visible hand of Government".

I don't ever recall enjoying waiting in queues or arguing with a person behind a plexiglass panel about cheque clearance times.

Is poverty for life? A Treasury report suggests not, writes Brian Fallow. Only 24 per cent of those at the bottom decile in 2002 were there seven years later.