The government has cancelled a planned 12c per litre fuel excise increase due in January. Labour has promised no fuel tax increases for a full three-year term. National and Labour are now accusing each other of leaving a hole in the transport budget. Keep Reading

Comment: For the better part of a decade, politicians have sold the public the fiction that we can build things without paying for them. Keep Reading

A previously unseen letter from the Public Service Commissioner discusses reducing the number of Government agencies from 42 to 15 to 20. But Sir Brian Roche... Keep Reading

We’ve entered the topsy turvy in which National is arguing Labour is irresponsible for ruling out a tax. Keep Reading

Forget Matt Damon’s comparatively painless jaunt across the Mediterranean, Campbell vs Hipkins is the year’s most difficult odyssey. Keep Reading