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Economy
In-depth
Holidays Act: no vacation for taxpayers
Let's pay billions of dollars and get nothing new for it.
![Holidays Act: Our 21-year-old problem child](https://media.businessdesk.co.nz/file/c_fill,h_400,w_600,q_100/bad-vacation-laptop-cropped.webp)
Economy
In-depth
Holidays Act: Our 21-year-old problem child
Successive governments have taken more than 20 years to fail to fix the Holidays Act.
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Business of Housing
Māori housing providers still building despite Budget loss
Issues of culture, values and finance remain.
![Passing the buck on housing bucks](https://media.businessdesk.co.nz/file/c_fill,h_400,w_600,q_100/TGA2-smaller-adjusted.webp)
Business of Housing
Passing the buck on housing bucks
Tight rules for social housing are 'unnecessary and wasteful'.
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![The mysterious disappearance of Peter Hughes](https://media.businessdesk.co.nz/file/c_fill,h_400,w_600,q_100/A-071216HUGHES3-2.webp)
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