COMMENT: The present young seem to have missed out not just on the direct action gene, but the voting gene as well.

Consumer prices rose less than expected in the June quarter as cheaper meat and domestic airfares offset a recovery in petrol prices

COMMENT: Hear all that complaining about Auckland's over-priced housing market? That's my generation making the noise.

From Apple's co-founder to the CEO of Yelp, Silicon Valley is going after the GOP candidate.

COMMENT: Stephen Jennings' warning that "we are facing an iceberg" that deserves to shatter business complacency on housing.

House prices have risen faster than wages in all but four regions in New Zealand, according to analysis by the Labour Party.

COMMENT: Candidates vying to replace the PM should keep in mind doing exactly what the voters said might not be wise.

Following the Brexit vote, odds are growing that governments will be jolted by mounting populist pressures worldwide.

COMMENT: I mean no disrespect to older people. I hope to be elderly myself one day. I just don't want them voting any more.

Despite what we like to think - wealth is not evenly distributed, in fact it's the worst it's been in over a decade.

COMMENT: New Zealand's economic miracle - the desire of people to come and live here - is showing signs of peaking.

The pace of growth in New Zealand's services sector slowed in May, although inbound migration continues demand.

Consumer confidence fell below its long-run average in the June quarter.

WATCH: The Economy Hub - Guest panelists Dominick Stephens and Chris Green talk about immigration.

COMMENT: Something remarkable happens tomorrow in countries such as New Zealand.

New Zealand continues to post record net migration arrivals, with a 67,400 gain over the past year, led by arrivals from Australia, China and the Philippines.

COMMENT: New Zealand's progress nudges our population growth ahead of Australia, writes Brian Gaynor.

Plummeting numbers of bees, butterflies and other insect populations are placing world food supplies under threat, a United Nations report has warned.

Fairyland or doomsday? asked China's state-backed newswire. Sure looks like doomsday.

New Zealand is becoming a super diverse nation, but its diversity story is a stratified one - drawn along ethnic and economic lines.

Several provincial centres once labelled dying "zombie" towns have reversed the trend with their resident numbers climbing in the last year.

In just over 20 years, the combined Asian, Pacific and Maori population in Auckland is forecast to outnumber Europeans and others.

The biggest threat to Auckland's environment continues to come from its own population, according to a stocktake presented to city councillors today.

Why are toilet paper sales soaring in Japan despite a falling population?

Auckland could take another 86,400 dwellings in the next eight years without any risk of over-building.

International travel figures released support suspicion that the economy's potential growth has been cut by slower population growth.

Migrant arrivals climbed 15 percent to 115,700 in the year, while departures fell 8.1 percent to 57,400.

New research has found that only four per cent of New Zealanders agreed they felt close to people in their local area.