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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand7d ago

When it comes to house prices, we still seem to think what has come down must go back up. New Zealanders have spent most of this century assuming house prices eventually go up. That belief survived the global financial crisis and it seems to have survived the post-pandemic crash.

6.1/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand8d ago

National once derided KiwiSaver and Working for Families. Now the Labour schemes are part of its pitch to voters. Christopher Luxon hailed National’s new compulsory KiwiSaver policy as a big step towards, say it with me, “ fixing the basics and building the future” .

6.1/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇻🇳Vietnam19d ago

Fake news about Warriors coach Andrew Webster is part of a griefbait slop epidemic. I t turns out that top of the list of our collective concerns about “possible threats to New Zealand’s vital interests” is not climate change or cyberattacks, not economic downturn or even military conflict, but fake news and misinformation. A survey of more than 2,000 New Zealanders, published this week by the Asia NZ Foundation, found 39% of us reckon it’s a medium concern, and 51% say it’s a high concern.

6.1/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇩🇪Germany 🇫🇷France+222d ago

While there’s no quick fix, a few proposals for tackling the rising cost of our universal pension scheme get thrown around regularly. So what’s the best plan of action? The Spinoff asked three experts to weigh in.

6.1/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇮🇷Iran 🇴🇲Oman33d ago

Most people don’t have time to read everything on budget day, so Henry Oliver narrowed it down to a manageable ten for you to catch up on in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here . Maybe this was an election-year budget after all With all the talk of prudence and tough love (and a lack of lolly scrambles), some pundits praised the budget for its political neutrality, saying this wasn’t a budget where money was being splashed around to win votes.

6.1/10·The Spinoff·Wellington, Wellington Region

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇺🇸United States 🇮🇷Iran+134d ago

Since there will be no ‘backpocket boost’ in Budget 2026, National will need to explain how fiscal restraint will help voters in a perpetual cost of living crisis. Balancing the budget is a matter of national security. That’s the sales pitch the coalition government is making to voters on the eve of Budget 2026.

6.1/10·The Spinoff·Tehran, Tehran

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EconomicCrisis🇨🇳China 🇹🇼Taiwan 🇳🇿New Zealand55d ago

If I were Nicola Willis I’d be worrying about this, writes Anna Fifield. T his story was originally published on the author’s Substack, Between Giants . As US president Donald Trump finds himself mired in a war of his own making in the Middle East, the Chinese internet has become awash with memes showing Trump as “Don Tzu,” a play on the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu and his “Art of War” doctrines.

6.1/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇨🇦Canadayesterday

There’s a common thread linking Winston Peters’ least favourite bits of recent legislation: NZ First voted them into law. Winston Peters had harsh words for career politicians when NZME presenter Ryan Bridge asked him about the UK’s out-of-control prime ministerial turnover rate last Tuesday. “In the former era, where people came to politics later in their careers, they seemed to be far more dedicated to the country’s outcome than their own outcome,” said NZ First’s 81-year-old leader.

5.7/10·The Spinoff·Auckland, Auckland

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand9d ago

Unfurl the money hose and fire up the cash bazooka: it’s time for a brief history of parliament’s favourite fiscal figures of speech. It’s election year and the polls are tight, so politicians of all stripes are ratcheting up the rhetoric in the all-important quest to discredit their opponents. For the centre right, that traditionally means accusing the left of profligate spending.

5.7/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand15d ago

Our reality is closer to Christopher Luxon’s infamous description of a ‘wet, whiny, inward-looking country’. Fieldays was a smash hit this year. Thousands of vendors showed up in Waikato to hawk their wares to hundreds of thousands of attendees, many freshly flush with cash.

5.7/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇦🇺Australia 🇨🇺Cuba 🇲🇲Myanmar+115d ago

With liquidations soaring and six-figure debts making headlines, let’s look at the figures (and the bigger picture). Prices are up everywhere (the cheese! the butter!).

5.7/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇹🇴TO33d ago

While some investments were targeted at Māori, critics say the government has its priorities wrong and the budget will leave Māori communities continuing to struggle. For all the political theatre around Budget 2026, the Māori story is relatively simple: targeted cultural and settlement investments on one hand, and growing accusations of economic neglect on the other. The government has poured tens of millions into Māori media, aquaculture settlements, court infrastructure and cultural promotion, while simultaneously extracting major savings from Te Puni Kōkiri.

5.7/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇺🇸United States 🇨🇦Canada7d ago

The Golden Mile, the housing crisis, and the problem with progressive cities. The outcome of last Thursday’s Wellington City Council meeting was inevitable. The council voted overwhelmingly to cancel the Golden Mile project, the $215m upgrade of Courtenay Place, Manners St, Willis St and Lambton Quay that had been hanging around in various forms since 2016.

5.5/10·The Spinoff·Wellington, Wellington Region

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand53d ago

Jack Tame is an excellent political interviewer. But his greatest talent is hassling Christopher Luxon for not appearing on his show. There’s a reason politicians are scared of Jack Tame.

5.3/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇯🇴Jordan 🇴🇲Oman18h ago

Lawyers for Don Brash say he was defamed by Matthew Hooton’s suggestion he was dishonest. It wasn’t the fact that Matthew Hooton’s fiery monologue described Don Brash as a “fundamentally bad person” and his infamous Ōrewa speech as “despicably racist” that prompted Brash to file defamation proceedings. It was the suggestion the former National and Act leader was too intelligent to honestly believe what he and his advocacy group Hobson’s Pledge say about Māori.

5.1/10·The Spinoff·Wellington, Wellington Region

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand25d ago

Architect Claire Tod feared her reality was too raw for a profession that celebrated perfection. It turns out, her experiences were her strength. When I became a registered architect last year, I thought I’d feel elated, but instead I felt overwhelmingly uncomfortable.

5.1/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand 🇦🇺Australia 🇨🇰CK43d ago

NZ First’s plan to buy back the Bank of New Zealand has attracted scepticism – even downright ridicule – from across the political spectrum, writes Catherine McGregor in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here . BNZ plan leaves experts aghast Writing on his Substack after Sunday’s NZ First campaign event, right-wing broadcaster Peter Williams – a former NZ First voter – set the tone: “The idea of buying back the Bank of New Zealand is just preposterous.

5.1/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇮🇷Iran 🇳🇿New Zealand5d ago

Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional , in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: musician and Auckland Live Cabaret Festival artist, Delaney Davidson. The book I wish I’d written I guess the combination of never seeing myself as a book author and writing looking like so much hard work means I am pretty happy being a fan of them and never felt like I had to write one.

4.9/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand20d ago

One councillor said tall buildings contribute to global warming. Another said Auckland doesn’t have a housing crisis. Wayne Brown was already grumpy by the time the council’s latest housing debate rolled around.

4.5/10·The Spinoff

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EconomicCrisis🇳🇿New Zealand40d ago

Wellington's city council announced a 60 percent funding cut to the Citizens Advice Bureau, significantly reducing the organization's ability to provide free advice and support services to residents.

2.5/10·Radio New Zealand·Wellington, Wellington

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