Opinion – Neil Gillespie

Everybody wants and needs electricity. Most of us agree that our electricity should be clean and renewable. So how do we as a country best deliver the clean, reliable supplies of electricity to power our long-term energy future? How do we ensure the …
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Column – C.D. Sludge

The headline numbers out of today’s budget will scare no horses. And hopefully not the Standard and Poors’ examiners anyway. And afterall that was – according to the PM John Key – the plan.
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Column – Finlay Thompson

The Reserve Bank will want to raise interest rates yet again. Inflation is lurking everywhere and our over-heating economy will be in need of the wet blanket again. Governor Don Brash will stand at the podium and announce seven percent interest, …
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Reserve Bank Governor Dr Alan Bollard was bullish in his assessment of the resilience of the NZ economy in the face of the ongoing global financial crisis today.
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Is the New Zealand representative at the UN General Assembly’s discussions on the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights able to make mention of the fact that the Optional Protocol (OP) does not …
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Just days before councillors are due to debate major amendments to the city’s District Plan, the Wellington City Council has released 79 pages of documents about the proposed changes .
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When Wal-Mart becomes the scene of death for America’s frantic burghers, things must be getting desperate in the world’s largest economy. Black Friday, that opportune moment for America’s deranged shopper to expunge any available cash prior to Christmas, …
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Repeated reductions in interest rates do little to resolve underlying economic issues. Instead, any strategy that will overcome the impending volatility of 2009 must tightly coordinate several key growth drivers.
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This afternoon New Zealand Prime Minister John Key held a short press conference in which he offered his condolences to the family’s of the New Zealand air crew who died in the crash in involving an Air New Zealand Air bus that was leased to XL Airways …
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In a conference call this morning Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe updated media on the Airbus A320 crash in the Mediterranian. Onboard the aircraft were four Air New Zealand personel – a senior captian and three engineers.
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On television earlier in the evening, Wellington city councillor John Morrison, speaking as chairman of the Basin Reserve Trust, referred to them obscurely as “Johnny come latelys.”
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Kiwibank has today cut its variable home loan rate to 7.95% to stay significantly less than the big Australian-owned banks.
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It needs to be borne in mind however – that the role of the finance sector generally, was simply to provide the “fuel” – and within dysfunctional urban markets where housing exceeded three times household incomes, the financing had to adapt, if finance firms …
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Globally recognised for its strengths and expertise across a range of sectors, such as biotechnology, ICT and specialised manufacturing, New Zealand is now blending this expertise and building up an enviable reputation in medical technologies. Medtech …
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Christchurch International Airport Ltd has reported domestic passenger growth of almost 20% compared with October last year. While international volumes have decreased by 3%, in line with national and international trends in the current economic climate, …
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Petrol prices tumbling, grocery prices down, interest rates slashed and you’re about to get another tax cut. Sounds like there’s plenty left in the kitty for a cold one. But “just the usual thanks love,” won’t cut it any more. Challenging …
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Fancy a kitchen whisk that resembles a squid? Or perhaps a dish brush shaped like a person? Cooking and cleaning will never be the same again with the opening of Australasia’s first Pylones store in New Zealand.
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New Zealand company IQideas Ltd has scooped two international awards for its high quality Kiwi-designed educational board games.
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Prime Minister John Key leaves today for Apec in Lima, Peru, to attend the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) Leader’s Summit.
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The Screen Production and Development Association (SPADA) presented these awards today at its annual conference:
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