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Kerre McIvor: We need to raise the superannuation age (Photo / Getty) Tue, 6 Jul 2021, 12:09PM The sound of flapping you hear in the air is the sound of all our chickens coming home to roost.  Treasury's most recent analysis of the Government's long term finances sees the country facing an interminable cycle of debt and deficits, with debt levels rising to more than two trillion dollars in 40 years if it doesn't get the costs of an ageing population under control.  The cost increases will be driven by the cost of healthcare and superannuation, which will both increase un...

Dileepa Fonseka05:00, Jun 05 2021 ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Judith Collins consoles Sharareh Khojasteh and her son Daniel Ahmadvand (right) during a protest outside Parliament for split migrant families. OPINION: Accountants are good people to blame when you run out of anybody else to. Still, I find it odd to be blaming this accountant I met at a recent migrant protest for the low-productivity situation we find ourselves in. The word ‘productivity’ has been rearing its head recently, but not the way we once knew it. During the 1980s and 1990s it was used to justify major economic reforms and...

More New Zealanders spend more of their lives working than people in other countries, and once again house prices are to blame.