Retail NZ’s Carolyn Young calls the 0.5% spending lift a mirage
The mirage in the March numbers Stats NZ electronic card data for March 2026 showed headline retail spending up 0.5%. That number has been widely cited as evidence of consumer resilience. It is evidence of nothing of the sort. Retail NZ chief executive Carolyn...
Trans-Tasman integration is no longer policy, it is triage
The numbers behind the handshake When Finance Minister Nicola Willis sat down with Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers in September 2025 to...
Real estate agents have an AI problem they are not admitting
Selling houses from a war zone On the morning of Anzac Day, Donna Hewitt of Connect Realty Queenstown posted an AI-generated...
Built for TV, Mt Cargill tower now keeps South Islanders alive
A television relic that became a lifeline Dunedin's Mt Cargill transmission tower has been standing on a 670-metre peak since 1970,...
PSAAP reclassification is quietly gutting the towns employers already can’t staff
Ten weeks from now, an unknown number of rural medical practices across New Zealand could lose the funding premium that...
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