Eric Crampton on interest-free student loans - "It's hurting students, the tertiary sector and tertiary accessibility"

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Matthew Hooton on why everyone is wrong about the lost luggage bill

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"Distraction is one of the great political arts. Make enough fuss about something small and you can make something big almost disappear."

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Television New Zealand chief executive Kevin Kenrick has vowed the state-owned, free-to-air broadcaster won’t seek to impose the same limits on the use of 2018 Commonwealth Games footage – to which it holds the rights – as Sky TV has sought to do with the Rio Olympics.

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It’s not often an analyst describes a company’s results as “appalling” without any positives, but that’s Forsyth Barr analyst James Bascand’s assessment of Opus International Consultants’ latest offering.

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Changes to how Statistics New Zealand calculates labour market data is making the latest unemployment figure look better than it would otherwise be, the department says.

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The plummet of the British pound, following the UK's decision to leave the EU in June, is having repercussions for inflation.

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Auckland mayoral aspirant Victoria Crone has slammed Auckland Council bureaucrats for investing in a fund that holds shares in a tobacco company while admitting she has a superannuation fund that she is no idea what it invests in.

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Skellerup’s chief executive David Mair says his company is now well placed to grow and is hungry for acquisitions.

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The government is stepping up its effort to improve workplace maths levels.

Tertiary Education, Skills and Employment Minister Steven Joyce told the annual adult literacy and numeracy forum in Wellington recent OECD work showed New Zealand has made major strides in improving adult literacy skills and that the improvement is stronger than anticipated when the government began a major push on the issue in 2010.

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