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Bright-line is designed to reduce property speculation, but is it working if it only taxes a tiny proportion of sales?
Stuff
How the traffic light system will create a country of haves and have nots
Stuff
The best and brightest of New Zealand's gaming industry are concerned that an Australian tax subsidy could decimate the local industry, bleeding talent, and GDP over the ditch.
Newsroom
Sealord staff 'gutted' as company announces staff restructuring after failed talks with New World and Pak'nSave cost it $5 million in revenues.
Newsroom
HIV is no longer considered a high cost condition by immigration, However, NZ is still among just 18 countries that will require migrants to get an HIV test for a visa or residence.
RNZ
The cost of getting a property valued has soared in the past year.
Pundit
If we want to minimise the impact of the Covid virus we are going to have to think about social class.
Newsroom
Phillida Bunkle examines hidden agendas in the memoirs of Margaret Wilson
The Spinoff
There are few more important jobs than leading NZ's transport agency. The country needs someone who can steer us towards a positive, climate-friendly future, urges Jolisa Gracewood. Cool job alert! Waka Kotahi (the New Zealand Transport Agency) is looking for a new chair of the board, to guide the
Newsroom
National and the Government have worked together to design new housing density rules that would allow three homes, three storeys tall to be built on most sites without a consent.
Pundit
Picnics have come to symbolise many things about life in Auckland right now - they are a blessing and a curse, a political masterstroke and a retreat. Now they need to be the start of something more
Newshub
Kiwi businesses are "extremely frustrated", an October Tony Alexander business survey shows.
RNZ
Inflation is expected to hit its highest level in a decade when the latest data is released on Monday.
the Guardian
Inclusion of Māori legal customs could profoundly alter the way law is applied in areas as diverse as defamation and trust law
While the first group of RSE workers have arrived, the industry says it’s not enough to plug the gaps.
Newsroom
For too long, New Zealand has relied on top-down, centralised strategies against Covid-19 that have now run their course, says Marie McEntee of the University of Auckland
RNZ
Twenty-five years ago today New Zealand held its first MMP election. How's that working out for us?
Kiwiblog | DPF's Kiwiblog - Fomenting Happy Mischief since 2003
An interesting paper that looks at how key economic and social indicators for Mapori have changed over the decades. The points the paper stresses is that there has been huge gains, even though outcomes are still generally less favourable than Europeans. Some key data points: Life expectancy increased from mid 50s in 1951 to 73 […]
Newsroom
Genomic research is critical to understanding disease, but fear of genomic discrimination due to gaps in NZ's legislation is undermining the potential that research could offer, argue Dr Rachel Purcell and Ben Te Aika.
Stuff
When they were introduced, private supermarket labels offered consumers low cost goods and suppliers another route to market but as Nadine Porter found out, what you see is not always what you get…
Stuff
OPINION: Don’t count on your Amazon delivery. But you can look forward to higher consumer prices and overall inflation for Christmas.
Stuff
Cut off from an income-related rental subsidy, council housing tenants are less equal than other social housing tenants.
Newsroom
Council-owned Oamaru Hospital is celebrated as a model for the future of local government, but it also exemplifies a newfound 'misunderstanding and mistrust' of central government.
Newshub
The wholesale cash rate has increased 25 basis points, to 0.50 percent.
The Spinoff
A massive leak of financial documents has again sparked debate over whether the world’s wealthy and nefarious are exploiting New Zealand’s laws to evade tax and hide their ill-gotten gains. Five years ago, New Zealand was rocked by a document dump which revealed the country played an important r
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