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The Reserve Bank has signalled an imminent lift in the official rate. Economist Shamubeel Eaqub is not impressed.
A fortnight from today, the clock strikes OCR at the Reserve Bank and it’s time to announce any change to the benchmark interest rate. The last time it put its mind to that task, on the eve of Budget Day in late May, the official rate was held at 2.25%, but...
A bumper week of policy and the launch of a striking new infantilisation strategy.
The gun for election 2026 was fired with great fury and much shrapnel on Sunday, with National campaign manager Simeon Brown sparing almost no one. The parties of a potential rival coalition got a dressing down. So did his own coalition partners. There was even an implicit repudiation of...
In our series looking at dating in New Zealand, an occupational health worker is looking for a man ‘ideally a different ethnicity to mine’.
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Last weekend’s sell-out Warriors game proved the South Island is ready for a team in the world’s premier rugby league competition.
There were two special guests at One New Zealand Stadium for the Warriors’ first game at Christchurch’s new multimillion-dollar sports and entertainment venue – outgoing NRL CEO Andrew Abdo and Australian Rugby League chair Peter V’landys.<...
One of New Zealand’s most celebrated actors gives her take on the state of the world.
Few New Zealand actors have the power to sell out a theatre show simply by being in it, but Jennifer Ward-Lealand is one of them. An actor with a career spanning five decades (her first screen appearance was aged nine), Ward-Lealand has appeared in every medium, but it’s the stage whe...