The housing market won’t drive our economic recovery this time, commentator warns – The Front Page
Economic commentator Bernard Hickey warns the conditions that fuelled those past recoveries have changed, and relying on history…
All at sea: El Niño may blow in a summer of scarcity for our seabirds
Veronika Meduna Science & environment writer·New Zealand Listener· 10 Oct, 2026 06:04 PM4 mins to read Subscribe…
First XV: Our review of an uneven schoolboy rugby media landscape in 2026
The above schools are all party to the ongoing 1A First XV media blackout, predicated on a belief…
NZ telecoms infrastructure: Why US investors paid $600k for a Lower Hutt rooftop – and broke our rules
Yet the US-owned fund found its lease breached foreign buyer rules by taking an interest in residential land…
Well Written is our best horse but is she good enough to beat the Aussies?
Well Written has never raced on a track rated worse than a Soft 5 but champion New Zealand…
Will KiwiSaver first home withdrawals still be there for our grandkids? – Mary Holm
Those two and several others would never vote anything but right-wing, and if ever the subject came up,…
Is election uncertainty killing our recovery? – The Economy of Everything
Given expectations about lengthy MMP coalition talks and the later November 7 election day this year, there was…
What is New Zealand’s best airport? Power-ranking our top 15
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, airports are something most of us have to go through at some time;…
A decade at the checkout: Inside our food price crisis – and proposed political solutions
Speaker Gerry Brownlee tried to quell the hubbub with a bit of humour: “I know that a topic…
‘Gambling with our lives’: AI researcher quits Anthropic
“This is not a marketing stunt.” I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing…
NRL team of the Year: Three Warriors make our side
Spectators storm the field as Alex Johnston, of the Rabbitohs, celebrates becoming the highest try scorer in NRL…
‘We’ve lost half our deposit’: About 4000 first-home buyers owe more than their homes are worth
The true number in negative equity is likely to be higher than 3600 because many bought with a…