3+ day, 13+ 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…...

3+ day, 12+ 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…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago   (214+ words) New Zealand’s youth unemployment rate hit 15.2 percent in the September 2025 quarter, up from 13.1 percent a year earlier. That is close to three times the wider working-age rate of 5.3 percent. Drill down and it gets worse: 22.3 percent of 15 to 19 year-olds and…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago   (524+ words) A collapsed developer selling apartments below cost is not, on its own, a market-moving event. What makes DDL Estates worth watching is the arithmetic behind it and what those forced sales do to everyone else’s numbers. When DDL fell over,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (513+ words) Cromwell is a Central Otago town of 7,500 people. It is not on Tourism New Zealand’s greatest-hits reel and it does not spend millions promoting itself. Yet Kiwi Water Park, an inflatable playground on Lake Dunstan, now pulls tourists off the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (360+ words) The number of people in apprenticeships and workplace-based training fell to 108,315 in 2025, the lowest count since 2011 and down 32% from the record 158,570 reached in 2022. This is not a plateau. A July 2026 briefing to Tertiary Education Minister Penny Simmonds showed Q1 2026 enrolments running…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (455+ words) A letter from Public Service Commissioner Sir Brian Roche, written in August 2025 and made public on 31 August 2026, contains the clearest statement yet of where the government wants to take the state sector. In it, Roche wrote: “We need to move…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (369+ words) That is a direct shot at the legislative structure underpinning one of the country’s most valuable export industries. And the timing could hardly be worse. Kiwifruit is not a soft target. Export earnings hit a record $3.66 billion in 2024/25, up $958 million…...

2+ week, 13+ hour ago   (676+ words) Russell Harrison, a former Lotto presenter, started as a Family Court navigator in Rotorua in June 2021 and was arrested that same month in a global FBI sting targeting organised crime. He was suspended on full pay, and stayed suspended, collecting…...