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New IMF data ranks NZ's GDP growth as worst out of 159 nations in world along with Equatorial Guinea

What has PM Hipkins done? The newly released IMF Regional Economic Outlooks say NZ is projected to be the worst performing economy in the...

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Did the Gov't Fudge the Air NZ accounts to make us unable to work out its domestic monopoly powers?

Air NZ released its annual report yesterday, declaring bumper earnings of over half a billion dollars. Given the airline has a near...

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The Ministry of Social Development's Managers Take a Leaf from George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth"

The Ministry of Social Development is going to great lengths to sell Kiwis its version of "the truth", regardless of where that truth...

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Did the PM Just Mislead the Country about the Advice he received about the Wealth Tax?

Yesterday, on the back of polls showing falling support for Labour, the Prime Minister was asked again why he dumped the wealth tax which...

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This Graph of the Cost of Bread Will Sink PM Hipkins. By his own measure of success, he has failed.

Labour will have a new focus on "bread & butter issues" like cost of living, Hipkins said when he replaced Ardern as PM. Let's take him...

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Former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz writes that Donald Trump's indictment is bad for the US

The hugely respected (for his legal mind) prominent former Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz writes that the just-announced felony...

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The PM says the gov't "don't have a money tree". Yes it does - the Reserve Bank calls it Tāne Mahuta

The PM has criticized teachers' pay demands with the jibe that the "Governments have to ultimately make the books balance, we don't have...

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