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 announce a fresh round of regulatory harmonisation initiatives, the language was unusually blunt for a joint communique. They talked about cutting "red...
Tradespeople set for expanded ability to sign off own work
The government is set to broaden a scheme that would let certain tradespeople approve parts of their own work once...
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...
More intense rainfall is driving landslides across NZ – but better forecasting offers a way to adapt
In New Zealand, landslides are becoming a more frequent consequence of extreme rainfall events. Recent examples include thousands of slips...
Forget Netflix alternatives, the Hollywood merger just killed most of them
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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