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Rights on paper, nothing behind them On 29 July, Newstalk ZB's Mike Hosking Breakfast ran an interview with intellectual property lawyer...
A performance-linked bargain The government's overhaul of the Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) scheme, announced on 28 July 2026, is built on...
Demand is now the constraint Most New Zealand manufacturers spend years chasing a market. Hawk Technology has the opposite problem. The...
The number the headline buries A Ministry of Transport briefing to Transport Minister Chris Bishop, revealed by the NZ Herald on...
The goalposts moved and nobody announced it New Zealand exporters have spent two decades trading under a set of assumptions about...
From good practice to legal duty For years, keeping avian influenza off your property was a matter of good sense. As...
A $255,000 lift, justified by comparison Auckland Council is about to consider fee rises of 18 to 33 percent for directors...
The headline number, and why to hold it lightly New research from Infometrics, commissioned by TikTok, estimates the platform contributes roughly...
Fining people through the barrier is not the same as fixing it Stats NZ is pressing ahead with plans to introduce...
The money is where the missiles are Rocket Lab has been awarded a US$266 million (NZ$453 million) firm-fixed-price contract by the...
Not the firm you would expect on a liquidation list This week Inland Revenue moves to liquidate Tāmaki Makaurau Office Architecture,...
New Zealand likes to call itself a food powerhouse. The uncomfortable truth is that the powerhouse runs on imported fertiliser,...
A billion dollars nobody gets to look at New Zealand councils are sitting on a portfolio of art worth $1.12 billion,...
The shortage is getting worse, not better The aviation industry is not short of passengers or planes. It is short of...
The number that should worry every board New Zealand's water network discharged untreated wastewater into the environment 11,535 times in 2024/25,...
An 8000sqm freezer that never switches off Snowplanet, the Silverdale facility that bills itself as Australasia's only operational indoor ski venue,...
