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Opinion
Pattrick Smellie: OPINION: A strange bedfellow and a tenuous lifeline at Ratana for Bridges
National Party leader Simon Bridges was thrown an unlikely, admittedly tenuous, lifeline at today's annual political pilgrimage to the seat of the Ratana church, a traditional Labour Party bastion.That lifeline came in the form of an unexpected endorsement by the Green Party's Ja...
Economy
Stronger-than-forecast CPI gives the RBNZ time
Annual inflation is hovering just below the mid-point of the central bank’s target range, which economists say gives it plenty of time to watch and wait. The consumer price index increased 0.5 percent in the December quarter bringing the annual rate of inflation to 1.9 percent, S...
Labour moving on from BERL to cost election policies
The Labour Party is again promising to cost its full policy programme, but will apparently not be using BERL, the Wellington economic agency that has performed that task for the party prior to other recent elections.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the party had yet to decide w...
Infrastructure
Industry faces more cuts to emission supports
Further cuts are planned to the protection energy-intensive firms receive against rising carbon costs, but no decisions are expected this year.The government surprised heavy industry late last year by announcing a review of the way it treats electricity use – the so-called electr...
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