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The city’s new underground rail stations are also impressive public spaces, showing how infrastructure can go well beyond the functional bare minimum.
Stuff
Thousands of public servants walked off the job on Wednesday to protest pay offers that the Public Service Association says do not keep pace with inflation.
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Restoring New Zealand’s pay equity system could deliver an average income boost of around $300 a week to 91,000 families, according to new analysis from the Public Service Association, as […]
RNZ
Depending on where you live in the country, house values in your suburb could have increased by 5 percent in the past three months, or townhouse values could have slipped more than 11 percent.
Newsroom
'We saw that coming,' says food waste charity boss Susie Robertson, as grocery algorithms drive a drop in vital protein donations in cost-of-living crisis. Tina Morrison reports.
RNZ
With New Zealand's single biggest gas consumer Methanex announcing a decision to close from next year and sell off its gas contracts, what impact will it have on households and small businesses?
The Ministry of Social Development declined Special Needs Grant applications on that basis on more than 8000 occasions.
Newsroom
Farmers are facing rising physical and financial tolls as feral pests reinvade pasture from untended conservation land, prompting calls for urgent government action.
NZ Herald
Advisory: This article contains photos that readers may find confronting. “Confronting” evidence reveals pigs and ferrets are eating native geckos, eels and...
The Ministry of Justice's Crime and Victims Survey showed there were 9000 more victims of violent crime than the previous quarter – a 6% increase.
Hundreds showed up to the meeting on Auckland's North Shore with some urging the Government to improve funding, staffing and support.
NZ Herald
The head of New Zealand’s financial markets regulator has resigned amid an investigation into her employment and an inquiry into conduct and culture at her...
All five of New Zealand's major banks lifted their variable rates by 25 basis points – in step with the OCR.
RNZ
The latest Master Builders State of the Sector survey, which polls the mood of member companies and their customers, showed a slight improvement in firms' confidence in their pipeline.
Follow along as finance and political sectors react after the Reserve Bank delivered its latest official cash rate (OCR) decision.
NZ Herald
By Sam Sherwood of RNZ Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing following a police investigation into historical...
As expected, the Reserve Bank has pushed the cash rate to 2.75%., All things property, under OneRoof
Newsroom
Critics of Chris Bishop’s flagship environmental law reform usually say it goes too far in pulling back protections – one group says it doesn’t go far enough
Up until now rural New Zealanders have often been unable to use the first-home withdrawal because of a typical housing arrangement on the farm where they are working.
Economists expect another 25-point hike to the highest level in more than a year, though Kiwibank says the economy is too weak to justify further tightening.
The Conversation
Immigrant entrepreneurs report frustration and disappointment over the lack of business support setting up in New Zealand. Any new visa scheme must account for this.
RNZ
New Zealanders don't expect house prices to rise so much any more, but they do think it's a good time to buy a house, ASB's latest housing confidence survey shows.
RNZ
About 1000 social housing households in the capital are facing rent increases as Wellington City Council undertakes a massive renovation programme across the city.
ASB's latest housing confidence survey comes ahead of the Reserve Bank reviewing the Official Cash Rate on Wednesday.
Stuff
Around 10,000 workers will strike from 1pm on Wednesday, September 9, over bargaining for their respective collective agreements.
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