Retrospective tort immunity puts the EU free trade deal in jeopardy
A one-week bill with constitutional weight In early July 2026, Parliament passed the first reading of the Climate Change Response (Tort Liability) Amendment Bill under urgency. It would retrospectively extinguish iwi activist Mike Smith's lawsuit against New Zealand's six biggest greenhouse gas emitters,...
$9 billion in exporter red tape is the real target of Auckland trade talks
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Is your $80,000 office role already on the automation shortlist?
The map now exists, and it points at the office The automation debate has left the realm of theory and landed...
Nearly half of 456 Crown-backed startups have defaulted on their loans
When the then Labour-led government dropped $150 million of startup loans into Budget 2020 as part of its Covid-19 economic...
Is your $80,000 office role already on the automation shortlist?
Venture-grade risk sold as an ordinary share purchase burned thousands of Kiwis
Who carries the liability when AI makes a clinical error
The tool arrived before the rules did Health is the most tightly regulated sector in the country, which makes the adoption...
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