It’s budget day and the election campaign begins
The Prime Minister all but launched her-re-election campaign yesterday. In a speech in the Beehive Theatrette, she said that In the coming month the Government...
ACT is back with more members, more money and a bold new plan
What is increasingly looking a hard-fought contest between National and ACT for the centre-right vote took another turn last night with ACT releasing a...
The odd couple open up the Tasman
Air New Zealand could be flying the Tasman again in time for the July school holidays which start on July 1. Tourism industry sources believe...
Robertson’s revival plan
Grant Robertson is already well into what is likely to be a fundamental reconstruction of the New Zealand economy. This will be no collection of...
“Helicopter” handouts not yet cleared for takeoff
This weekend will see the Government leave the Level Four lockdown where the emphasis has primarily been on health matters and move to a...
Avoiding the depression
The Government is now considering the future of the $10 billion wage subsidy scheme and is considering whether it should be amended, continued or...
We’ve got a long way to go yet
One of Auckland biggest construction projects – presumably the Convention Centre --- will only be able to operate at 30 per under its usual...
Robertson: “It is the challenge I have been waiting for.”
In a major speech yesterday Finance Minister Grant Robertson made it clear that the recovery from the covid-19 recession – or very probably, depression...
How the crisis could sour workers
Few employers will have given much thought to the long term impact of the covid-19 crisis on their employment relations. They should have, because how employers treat their workers in the short term will have a profound effect on how those workers treat their employers in the long term.
After the lockdown, here comes the biggest construction boom – ever.
The construction industry should be back to work in May on a vast infrastructure build that is likely to be the biggest in New...
How the lockdown end may be a false dawn
Cabinet will decide on Monday week whether to come out of Level Four of the lockdown. But as the year unfolds and the grim reality...
Never waste a crisis
Finance Minister Grant Robertson fronted up to the Covid-19 Select Committee and began answering the two big questions about the virus and its impact. When...
The virus gets serious and Air New Zealand is the first casualty
The full economic impact of the covid-19 crisis became clear last night with a stunning announcement from Air NZ that it is to become...
The ghost of Michael Joseph Savage
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has stamped her leadership on her Governments response to the coronavirus
It was there in her reply to mostly negative attack...
Billions to fight the virus
Air New Zealand’s chair and chief executive met Transport Minister Phil Twyford late yesterday to talk about the situation facing the airline.
Twyford would not...
