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

Bill English says the long term outlook for the NZ economy is good, but the recovery will be flatter in the short term.

Following reports of Australian charities paying for homeless Kiwis to fly home, a down-on-her-luck NZer in Melbourne tells her story.

The median weekly income edged lower in the year to June, as more people started receiving money from the Government rose while the self-employed earned less and investment income fell.

Economists have wound back their expectations for NZ's recovery.