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The gap is now $650 million and widening Westpac's latest sector report lands with a number the aged care industry has...
The wrong argument The replacement of New Zealand's two ageing Anzac-class frigates has been framed as a defence procurement fight: Japan's...
Foot traffic is up, the wallets are shut When a large entertainment operator proposes cutting around 200 roles, the easy assumption...
A paper order against a borderless platform When the Department of Internal Affairs wrote to Polymarket and Kalshi on 16 February...
A hydrogen bet that doesn't depend on hydrogen Most hydrogen announcements are a bet on a market that doesn't exist yet....
Not a Wellington problem anymore When NZSIS Director-General Andrew Hampton released the agency's latest threat assessment on 13 August 2026, calling...
The barrier nobody voted for New Zealand has spent decades chasing free trade agreements to knock down tariffs. It worked. Then...
Two reviews, zero employees, and one very wrong answer The Labour Inspectorate looked hard at Gloriavale. It ran formal reviews in...
The collapse in the numbers The scale of New Zealand's cruise retreat is not subtle. Customs data shows the country peaked...
Seven years, $400 million, one gold bar away New Zealand spends a lot of time talking about productivity, exports and the...
The bodies keep turning up Every time Wellington starts digging into its digital estate, it finds another project in trouble. The...
A record IPO built on a shaky number When SpaceX raised US$75 billion in its 12 June 2026 float, the largest...
A theft charge, an insolvency, and a fundraising pitch Samuel Luke Macfarlane, director of Queenstown-based MGM Homes, appeared in Queenstown District...
Two records, one story The headline number looks like a vote of confidence. 62,061 companies were incorporated in the year to...
A funding pitch for a problem that's fixing itself Labour leader Chris Hipkins used a Rotorua visit on 11 August to...
The clearest $3.8 million lesson you'll read all year A paper presented to Parliament by the deputy commissioner's office has laid...
