10+ hour, 40+ min ago   (282+ words) On 13 September, the Major Electricity Users’ Group, whose members include Amazon, Fonterra and Woolworths, released an election manifesto telling all parties to commit to tougher efficiency rules for the country’s 28 electricity distribution businesses. This is not a plea for handouts....

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (272+ words) National has announced it will scrap the current First Home Loan income limits and replace them with a single $300,000 cap for every applicant, whether single, coupled or buying in a group. The existing thresholds, $95,000 for a single person and $150,000 for…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (270+ words) Directors have spent decades treating the company structure as a firewall between them and their firm’s liabilities. A mid-2026 High Court judgment out of Gisborne has just shown how thin that wall really is when environmental compliance goes wrong. Justice…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (292+ words) With calls to dismember the four big gentailers reaching an election-year peak, along comes James Bushnell, professor of economics at the University of California Davis, to muddy the narrative. In an interview published on 7 September 2026, Bushnell said there were “lots…...

3+ week, 10+ hour ago   (314+ words) That is the tension business owners should focus on. Property rights are being taken seriously for the first time in a generation, but the way you protect them determines whether you get legal certainty or a litigation machine. The Bill…...