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Māori businesses ؘface a new challenge: how to tactically withdraw from climate-sensitive primary industries.
RNZ
Consistent government messages about the need to protect property wealth mean prices will continue to grow, a property expert says.
Māori Television
The inaugural Māori Constitutional Convention will kick off this Wednesday looking at constitutional transformation. The hui was meant to be held at Waitangi...
Newshub
"Out of crisis always comes opportunity for change, for transformation, for innovation."
The Standard
The huge tyre fire near Amberley in North Canterbury last Friday is in an area with a high water table, extreme fire risk in summer, two kilometres from a town of 2000 residents, and on the edge of one of NZ’s premier wine regions.
Trying to slow the rapid increase in house prices may involve a whole suite of policy measures, says Professor Craig Elliffe.
Stuff
OPINION: Borrowers, investors, savers and central bankers have worried for over a decade that all the trillions of dollars of freshly printed money and Government spending will spark an inflation bonfire. It hasn’t yet, but is this time different?
Stuff
OPINION: Draft responsible lending code sends warning over never-ending debts.
Pundit
While many readers will say ‘the king is certainly not above the law’, not everyone believes that, especially if they are in power.
RNZ
Transparency International has again named New Zealand and Denmark as the world's least corrupt countries.
Newshub
Those rosy figures came pre-COVID.
Stuff
Trust in our government has never more important, transparency group says.
Newsroom
Nicholas Agar suggests that our handling of the pandemic could be partly down to our distinctive Treaty relationship, and Māori ideas that enabled us to make it through without tens of thousands of deaths.
New research shows Australia is in the top-10 countries in handling the global pandemic, and disproved a claim authoritarian regimes had an advantage.
The Conversation
Without improvements to New Zealand's 'makeshift' border quarantine system the risk of further community cases of COVID-19 variants remains high.
Stuff
Judith Collins wants to help the Government fix the housing crisis - will it listen?
Centre For Public Impact (CPI)
Pundit
The Treasury forecasts suggest the economy is doing better than expected after the Covid Shock.
Kiwiblog | DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003
A very interesting and useful paper from Joshua Ferrer. It is commonly believed that a norm of consensus-based election reform exists in New Zealand. However, this belief has yet to be tested with systematic study of changes to the democratic rules of the game. This article empirically analyzes the extent to which partisan and restrictive […]
RNZ
Business confidence remains pessimistic but is continuing to improve led by a positive outlook for the construction sector.
Newsroom
NZ deserves a far more robust framework controlling how this drug, that causes so much harm to so many, is being marketed and sold.
The Conversation
Once paid, tax becomes the property of the government. Pretending otherwise undermines the basic principles of the social contract.
RNZ
A report by one of the biggest banks in New Zealand says the big metropolitan areas are likely to drive economic recovery this year, and that further-increasing house prices will play a big role.
Newsroom
Supreme Court rules in favour of big new factory on farmland, saying nobody could have prophesied industrial and residential expansion as far as Pōkeno.
Newsroom
New Zealand isn't immune to the failing of political culture that saw an attempted coup in Washington, D.C., US-born journalist Marc Daalder writes.
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