Rural KiwiSaver changes will come back to bite, officials warn
Changes announced to KiwiSaver’s first-home buying rules for farmers and rural workers will create inequities and risk poorer…
Climate change ‘notably absent’ from new development laws, say councils
Local councils may be left unable to take climate change into account when setting long-term development objectives under…
How to make ‘Local Water Done Well’ more than a slogan
Opinion: As councils move swiftly to establish new council-controlled water organisations under the Government’s Local Water Done Well…
Fishing for a win, the National Party does a backflip
The battle has been long – fish versus fishing. Now, the fight over the future of the Hauraki…
Fisheries emerges as unlikely election battleground
Fisheries has found an unseasonably early spot on the election agenda, following three years of controversial pro-industry policies…
Healthcare disruption as general practices assn opposes super-PHO
Comment: The largely general practice-based primary health system has received a surprise jolt by the announcement that the…
Climate change is here. NZ isn’t ready
Analysis: Yearly occurrences of “once-in-a-century” storms, monthly devastating floods, hundreds of millions of dollars of annual damages and…
Pushing down the cost of predator control one sausage at a time
Peter Morton has worked in predator control for over 30 years and recalls a time when much of…
Appeal taken against High Court’s freshwater pollution decision
The legal stoush over a Canterbury water pollution rule is headed to the Court of Appeal. In a…
Comparing KiwiSaver and Aussie Super is the $6 trillion dollar question
Comment: Every few months a fresh comparison between KiwiSaver and Australia’s compulsory superannuation scheme, Australian Super, gains traction.…
‘Frustrating’: Economic leaders’ impatience at policy inertia
A sense of impatience ran through the first day of the New Zealand Economics Forum, as business leaders,…
NZ needs to pay power firms to build renewable generation – professor
New Zealand’s bountiful hydro, wind and geothermal resources made it a pioneer in renewable electricity generation. Yet these sources form…