Whatever the causes of Auckland's housing and infrastructure pressures, one can safely be ruled out – immigration. Bad planning, lack of foresight and a good old, or rather bad old dose of the Kiwi "she'll be right” rather than any imported factors seem to have written it.

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The Resource Management Act reforms are regressive in safeguarding access to environmental justice, a leading Auckland environmental lawyer says. The bill limits the public’s ability to comment on RMA plans and resource consents. "It is embarrassing the bill has introduced changes that are so out of step with international best practice in relation to environmental adjudication,” Simon Berry says.

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In his new book on Hew Zealand Prime Ministers from Dick Seddon to John Key, Michael Bassett delivers a mixed verdict on Helen Clark, who has just stepped down from running the UN’s Human Development Programme for the past eight years. On Ms Clark, Dr Bassett says: “… she made little attempt to understand economic and commercial realities … [and] … never came to grips with the challenges posed by her re-regulation and bureaucratic management of the commercial, and the contribution it made to declining levels of productivity… The economy left to her successor [John Key] was certainly in a weaker state than the one she inherited in 1999.”

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After housing costs, immigration are two issues that coud decide the next election. Both are simple cases of supply and demand. But most of the debate defies rational analysis.

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Green Party co-leader James Shaw Greens details the party's plans to provide “cheaper and cleaner” electricity for NZ.

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NZTech CEO Graeme Muller on increasing anti-immigrant moves helping the NZ tech sector.

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Abano CEO Richard Keys and why his company is taking legal action to recover costs.

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Listed fast food operator Restaurant Brands [NZX:RBD] could swap ailing Carl’s Jr for Taco Bell if its Hawaii venture goes well, analyst says.

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Rob Hosking on where inflation is heading and its impact on interest rates.

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The listed aged care operators have been given a boost by increased government funding, although may still have to pay premium rates to stay ahead of the rest of the sector. The government is implementing a pay equity pay deal for care workers worth $2 billion of extra pay for some 55,000 people. Aged and residential care workers will receive increases of 15-49% as the package is implemented from July 1, depending on their skill levels.

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