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Initiative pushing parties to think big
NZ Initiative sees housing, education and productivity as big election issues.
NZ Initiative sees housing, education and productivity as big election issues.
Tourism Minister Paula Bennett says New Zealand would risk being seen as a 'rip-off.'
He has been accepted into a two-year Master in Public Policy course starting in August.
New Zealanders are slightly less optimistic about the state of the labour market.
500 out of town competitors descended on Whanganui. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
COMMENT: New ways are needed to help councils bear cost of vital infrastructure.
COMMENT: Tax is going to be a defining issue this election, says Mike Hosking.
New Zealand's research and development spending has increased 20 per cent.
COMMENT: Little sign of progress at meeting to revive the TPP after the US withdrawal.
The Trump slump touched markets overnight that have been running on hope since election.
Investors digested the implications on the decision to cancel vote on health-care reform.
Landbankers are standing in the way of building houses, according to Wellington's mayor.
COMMENT: Visiting Chinese Premier Li Keqiang writes exclusively of his regard for NZ.
Is the average Kiwi paying $483 a year more in tax because of inflation?
The region lost 2,700 federal jobs since Trump took office, mostly in the District.
Labour and Greens are releasing a set of economic promises today.
The NZ dollar was little changed as financial markets awaited the outcome of a US vote.
The New Zealand dollar gained ahead of the RBNZ's six-weekly review of monetary policy.
COMMENT: Things are looking up for the economics profession, but it comes with a caveat.
The Dutch election was a barometer for how the mood of Europe, writes Mark Lister.
China is proving a counter-balance to Donald Trump's protectionist sentiments.
Huawei Technologies will spend $400m on R&D in NZ over the next five years.
NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.
Slashing pastoral stock numbers by up to 35 per cent has been suggested among ways to push New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2100.
Almost a year and a half after electronics retailer Dick Smith collapsed, its executives and directors have been hit with legal action
New Zealand consumer confidence dipped in the March quarter, but remains upbeat.
A showdown looms tomorrow between the accommodation sector and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff over a new rate to pay for tourism promotion.