All the moaning about the Securities Commission being a bunch of useless layabouts has finally paid off with the release of this truly depressing communiqué.

Treasury is sitting on advice to the government about options for selling state assets, and is just waiting to be asked to produce it.

NZ taxpayers have spent more than half a billion dollars over the past decade subsidising Hollywood.

John Key has slammed bureaucratic pin-pricking over the proposed NZ financial services hub as "absolute rubbish" and stepped in to put the project on the fast-track.

More can be done to improve the tax system to promote economic growth, says Treasury secretary John Whitehead.

Reciever says he's not surprised the SFO is looking at certain loans.

The Government is claiming credit for low price rises, saying people have more money in their pockets on the back on low inflation and increasing wages.

Roads, schools, prisons - business wants a share of the action, but the Government is in no rush, reports Nick Smith.

South Canterbury Finance chief executive Sandy Maier became a director of Ngai Tahu Holdings the day after Allan Hubbard's finance company was placed in receivership.