Three cuts, two 50bps, and one cash rate at 4.25%. In the final meeting for the year, the RBNZ delivered on expectation and cut the OCR to a 2-year low. The build-up of excess capacity has ...

John Arthur was sentenced in the Whangārei District Court on Friday for unlawfully working as a gasfitter and falsely advertising himself as a registered gasfitter. Mr Arthur has never been authorised ...

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko – welcomes the High Court’s decision last week to dismiss the application to strike out the FMA’s claim against the executor of the ...

“Survive til 25, is now “Alive in 25” and could turn into “thrive in 25”. We all want a quick fix in 26 with no conflicts and less politics. We believe the RBNZ will continue cutting the cash rate, at ...

A high pathogenic type of bird flu was confirmed in an Otago egg farm over the weekend. The Ministry for Primary Industries has confirmed the virus is not the H5N1 strain that has been causing deaths ...

Case managers will work with these job seekers to construct a personalised plan of agreed actions to address these issues. Job seekers will be supported by work-readiness, literacy and numeracy, ...

“Despite Minister for Social Development Louise Upston’s pledge to reduce Jobseeker numbers by 50,000, the number of beneficiaries has risen by over 22,000 – meaning their target is effectively now 72 ...

Proposals that pass the test will be identified as priorities for New Zealand. This does not guarantee funding – but it does provide decision makers with a menu of credible proposals which could ...

“Sanctions, work-for-the-dole programs, and punitive measures simply do not work. All they achieve is perpetuating cycles of hardship, widening inequality, and creating barriers for people to get back ...

The Transport Accident Investigation Commission is appealing for witnesses to an incident involving an Air New Zealand Airbus A320 passenger aircraft, the NZ240 flight from Wellington to Sydney on 1 ...

“The Funding and Financing Framework sits under my priority to Improve Infrastructure Funding and Financing. This work includes new Market Led Proposals Guidance which has also been released today, ...

A market-led approach is where a private sector player wishes to deal directly with Government with a proposal, where the Government has not requested the proposal in the first place. New Zealand has ...