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How the Reserve Bank created the recession
The review of the Reserve Bank during Covid published yesterday is a damning indictment of how it went about its tasks between 2020 and...
Nicky Hager takes on Jordan Williams and the hard right
In what was probably one of the biggest book launches Wellington has seen, the investigative journalist Nicky Hager unveiled his latest book, "Dirty Work",...
Labour’s political trap snares National
The political brawl over New Zealand’s grocery prices escalated yesterday, with Labour pledging to forcibly split the wholesale and retail operations of Woolworths and Foodstuffs if elected.
The aggressive policy move doubled down on an ongoing crackdown by the Commerce...
Willis’s supermarket plan “bonkers”
National, for the second time this week, has startled its political allies with another populist economic move.
On Tuesday it angered its coalition partners by announcing tax cuts without consulting them.
And yesterday it announced a plan to break up...
Coalition fractures over tax cuts
National turned up at the Business New Zealand pre-election conference yesterday in Wellington bearing gifts.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis was all but promising more tax relief as part of National's campaign.
She said she would have announcements to make on the...
Hipkins goes home to try out his campaign
Labour leader Chris Hipkins went home last night to Lower Hutt, where he grew up, and held a public meeting, a preview of what is to come as the campaign gets into full swing.
Around 120 Labour Party sympathisers turned...
Luxon cuts tourism promotion funding to give Brown his Bed Tax
A major funding shift will see local councils pocket tens of millions of dollars previously destined for nature and tourism promotion.
Instead of introducing a proposed "Bed Tax," the Government is diverting money from the International Visitor Conservation and Tourism...
Peters breaks with NZ foreign policy (again)
Less than a week after he was a party to a Pacific Islands Forum Declaration committing Forum nations to the Paris Accord and greenhouse gas targets, Winston Peters is saying he wants New Zealand to pull out of the...
The Reserve Bank and the election
The Reserve Bank yesterday handed Labour an economic weapon to hit National with as it goes into the election campaign.
The Bank raised the Official Cash Rate by .25 per cent to 2.75 per cent.
Though that is minuscule alongside the...
What matters more than the Treaty
Labour's fight to reclaim the Māori seats is not about the seats themselves but about keeping Te Pāti Māori out of contention for any future coalition.
Labour knows the possibility of Te Pāti Māori being in Government is a toxic...
Coalition rumbles
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday stretched coalition goodwill to near breaking point with his go-it-alone announcement of an under-16 social media ban.
NZ First leader Winston Peters called a press conference to attack the way the Prime Minister had gone...
Can Labour make its sums add up
Labour launched its Fiscal Strategy yesterday, but it would be best described as aspirational.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins and Finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds repeatedly stressed...
More power to Beehive
The Government is still under fire over its controversial Conservation Amendment Bill.
Already Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has had to back down over proposals to...
Making up is not so hard to do
Christopher Luxon escaped Parliament last night and found a packed meeting hall 20 kilometres away in Lower Hutt full of supporters.
Just over 150 had...
How not to organise a coup
The National Party's failed coup attempt yesterday has claimed its first victim.
After he was stripped of his portfolios earlier in the day, Kaipara ki...
Numbers firm against Luxon
There were hopes last night that the Prime Minister might recognise the apparent difficulty of his position and resign.
It seems that numbers yesterday firmed...
Unconfirmed reports say Nats want to vote tonight on Luxon’s leadership
There were unconfirmed reports last night that National caucus members were calling for a special meeting, possibly tonight, to consider the party’s leadership.
One source...
Luxon, living dangerously
At a press conference on Saturday, the Prime Minister pointedly ducked a question about how many MPs voted in support of him during the...
Dodging Xu Nan but running into the constitution
Parliament was yesterday treated to nearly a third of its Question Time being devoted to Foreign Minister Winston Peters dodging questions about what has...
Red to Green to Wildcard: The Battle for Wellington Bays
Wellington Bays is a new electorate this election, but its history is a classic story of where the old Labour Party of manual workers,...
China snaps
Foreign Minister Winston Peters’ attacks on Green MP Lawrence Xu-Nan, which were described by National Minister Simeon Brown as "racist", are fast becoming a...
Greens in trouble
National candidate Candace Kinser would be likely to defeat Green co-leader Chloe Swarbrick in the Auckland Central electorate, according to a Curia Taxpayers' Union...
Peters woos the anti vaxers
The second report of the Covid Inquiry released shows just how extensively suspicions based on misinformation about the Covid vaccinations spread through the population.
The...
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