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Hamish Rutherford: Political pressure rising on a political Reserve Bank 28 Apr, 2021 05:27 AM 5 minutes to read Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr in 2018. Photo / Mark Mitchell. OPINION: Precisely who is in charge when the Reserve Bank decides to restrict lending in the name of maintaining financial stability has been hard to pin down for a long time. Back in 2013, the Reserve Bank began the process of developing loan to value ratio (LVR) r...

The reason this card remains so tempting to play is the dim political memory of National leader Don Brash’s 2004 Orewa speech, which led to a sudden, meteoric rise in National’s polling, based on Brash’s appeal to “one law for all”, overtaking Helen Clark’s Labour government. Since then, and perhaps exacerbated by Brash’s shambolic subsequent public career, “one law for all” has been regarded as having almost magical power on its own, an ever-tempting get-out-of-jail-free ca...

According to a new documentary, it was actually Prince Harry who gave the ring to his brother to propose to Kate, as he was left the ring when Diana died in 1997. William finally popped the question in 2010, while the couple were in Africa. "We had a holiday in Africa and it was out there, in a very quiet lodge. It was very romantic and a very personal time for both of us,” Kate said at the time. William said he wanted his late mother to be remembered and involved in their marriage, and so...

Tuesday, 27 April 2021, 5:48 pm | ACC Futures Coalition When: Friday 30 April 2021 Where: Brentwood Hotel, 16 Kemp St, Kilbirnie, Wellingtonca What We think that the time is right to develop our thinking on how our world-leading ACC scheme might be reformed and broadened, and the ACC Futures Coalition is hosting ... More >> Tuesday, 1 October 2013, 10:03 am | ACC Futures Coalition The ACC Futures Coalition has released its manifesto on the future of ACC. It will serve as the basis of convers...

As TDB pointed out last week, the reason NZ was clear to articulate a different vehicle for criticising China was because there is concern within NZ that America and Australia are foolish enough to start some type of military adventure against China and the last thing we want to do is help provoke that. Australia yesterday played up that war… One of Australia’s top national security officials has warned that free nations “again hear the beating drums” of war, as military ten...

Te Radar: My story, as told to Elisabeth Easther 26 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 8 minutes to read Comedian, writer and presenter Te Radar. Photo / Jason Oxenham Te Radar is the moderator of The Great Comedy Debate, a live battle of wits between two teams of Aotearoas sharpest comedians arguing Technology Will Save Us. A one-night-only event on May 18, part of the NZ Intl. Comedy Festival with Best Foods Mayo, April 30 - May 24. I had a very rural upbringing and although Ōhinewai was right by S...

Audrey Young: Lifting the lid on how the parliamentary Press Gallery works 26 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 10 minutes to read The 2020 official Press Gallery photo with Speaker Trevor Mallard. Photo / Mark Coote Audrey Young is political editor for the New Zealand Heraldaudrey.young@nzherald.co.nz@audreyNZH The Parliamentary Press Gallery is marking its 150th anniversary this week – a year late because of Covid-19. Audrey Young hasnt been there quite that long but as one of the most experienced members...

RICKY WILSON Mega executives Bram van der Kolk and Mathias Ortmann’s passports are still being held at the High Court as part of the Kim Dotcom saga. ANALYSIS: New Zealand is too small and interconnected for people to speak too negatively about the country’s institutions, which is why it’s hard to get anybody to say anything bad about the NZX or Reserve Bank cyberattacks last year. At some point you’re probably going to have to deal with the person or institution you slag off in public...

Twitter Gordon Jon Thompson, the former Chief of Staff to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has been hired to do PR for NZ Bus during the driver strike. In a statement on Thursday, NZ Bus chief executive Jay Zmijewski​​ said the company had been left with “no option" but to issue the lockout notice “in response to the strike action, the disruption we have been experiencing, and the threat of further ‘surprise attack strikes’ by the union”. NZ Bus is owned by Australian private equi...

The country has been on my mind quite a lot in the past 18 months: from my last overseas trip to the country in February 2020 as part of a business delegation accompanying a ministerial mission, to the announcement earlier this month that flights from India would be suspended. India has been on a lot of other minds as well. Many of New Zealand’s international partners have been investing heavily in a broad relationship with the country, recognising its strategic importance. Whenever you ...