Policy

By Victoria Young | Tue, 24 Mar 2020

The government has published a more detailed list of which businesses and organisations can be considered essential services as the country prepares for lockdown from midnight Wednesday.  At a pres...

By Gavin Evans | Tue, 24 Mar 2020

Crown Law advice on the 2017 sacking of former Auditor-General Martin Matthews was “manifestly deficient” and didn’t reflect the important constitutional protection afforded him or other key independe...

By Pattrick Smellie | Mon, 23 Mar 2020

The government has scrapped the $150,000 upper limit a business can claim under the covid-19 wage subsidy scheme as part of a wider package of new initiatives to make credit available to viable firms...

By Rebecca Howard | Mon, 23 Mar 2020

Economists lauded the size of the Reserve Bank’s next, unprecedented stage of emergency support for the New Zealand economy after it committed to buying $30 billion of government bonds over the next 1...