10+ hour, 4+ min ago   (295+ words) That is not the system failing. That is the system working exactly as designed, and that is the problem. Businesses hand the same information to the same regulator multiple times. Fees are high and opaque. The review produced 24 recommendations, from…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (508+ words) The result was $93.17, nearly $20 above the inflation-adjusted figure. For employers, that gap is not a household curiosity. It is a preview of the wage demands landing on their desks. The divergence is sharpest exactly where New Zealand is a big…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (464+ words) For investors and developers, this is a story about durability. An approval that gets overturned in court, or that triggers a political reversal, is worse for the energy sector than a slower consent that holds. That speed is exactly what…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (451+ words) The common thread matters more than any single incident. Cyber risk has quietly moved from an IT inconvenience to a core business liability, and the payroll breach is the one that should have every board paying attention. The Thankyou Payroll…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (579+ words) The City Rail Link opens to passengers on Sunday, and the commercial market is not waiting for the patronage data. Around Karanga-a-hape Station, new leases are already being snapped up ahead of the opening, with Barfoot & Thompson commercial leasing agent…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (446+ words) NZ First’s 14-point immigration overhaul, unveiled on 11 September, is built around a referendum to cap resident visas at 20,000 a year. At first glance that sounds moderate. The detail is where it gets sharp. The cap applies to resident visas, the…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (563+ words) B2B News Methanex’s exit turns a policy argument into a workforce emergency For years the gas shortage read like a sectoral squabble – producers, generators and industrial users lobbying Wellington for a friendlier policy settlement. That framing is now obsolete. On 9 September…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (511+ words) That is the whole problem in one anecdote. And on 9 September 2026, the Ministry for Regulation released its Hospitality Sector Review, confirming in evidence what operators have complained about for years. This is not a marginal industry. Minister Louise Upston has…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (332+ words) New research from Women’s Refuge, released to RNZ on 10 September 2026, shows a genuine shift in how New Zealand workplaces handle family violence. Comparing surveys from 2019 and 2024, paid family violence leave uptake among affected women has risen from 9% to almost 34%. The…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (286+ words) The principle sounds simple enough. When a developer builds houses, they pay councils for the pipes, roads, parks and stormwater their project triggers. Growth pays for growth, and existing ratepayers don’t get stung for the cost of accommodating new arrivals....