Tom Pullar-strecker

The number of job vacancies advertised in New Zealand is continuing to shrink, according to listings site Seek, but it is reporting a small bounce-back in hard-hit Wellington and the government and defence sector.

OPINION: A theory is becoming entrenched - that President-elect Donald Trump's election victory was down to ruling elites underestimating people's dissatisfaction with their stalled standards of living.

Foodstuffs North Island and Foodstuffs South Island will go to court to attempt to overturn the Commerce Commission's refusal to clear their merger.

An advisory group responsible for recommending what projects should be eligible for fast-track consents gave preliminary approval to 36 mining and quarrying schemes in one meeting in June that lasted just three hours.

Tom Pullar-Strecker The Commerce Commission expects power bills to rise by about $10 a month on average from April and by a further $5 a month in each of the following four years as a result of a regulatory decision.

Fifteen economists, some associated with the Labour Party, have written to Prime Minister Christopher Luxon calling for an “immediate end” to all public-sector spending cuts.

Tom Pullar-Strecker The Treasury has effectively removed any doubt that it will lower its growth forecasts and chart a more difficult course for the Government returning its books to surplus.

The country's competition watchdog has delayed its decision on whether to clear Contact Energy's $1.9 billion purchase of Manawa Energy until Christmas Eve.

This analysis is part of The Annual Report , a Post series marking the first year in of the coalition Government.

Katherine Rich has had a couple of months to get her feet under the desk of what would seem, on paper, to be an almost impossible job.