New Zealand's construction industry is emerging from one of its toughest periods, with more than 17,000 jobs lost over the past 18 months. Penny Simmonds is confident her approach to polytechnics will not impact training in the regions, pushing back on criticism from the TEU. David Seymour has been given a telling-off by the prime minister for sending a scathing letter to a United Nations official about the Regulatory Standards Bill. The seven charter schools set up at the start of the year have been told to keep their enrolments secret, by The Charter School Agency.
Union coverage
Employment
- 'It really is hard for older job seekers to find work at the moment'
- Fast-tracked registration for doctors from US, Canada and Singapore
- Influential China course for public servants overhauled (paywall)
Politics
- Charter schools told to keep enrolment numbers secret
- Christopher Luxon tells off David Seymour over letter to United Nations
- Online casino bill: Greens vote with coalition govt to pass first reading
- Central Otago Lakes patients forced to travel for hospital treatments
- Nicola Willis is encouraged Commerce Commission has taken Foodstuffs North Island to court
- Auckland's problems a 'hangover' from Labour, Christopher Luxon says
- Plummeting participation in council elections 'a threat to democracy'
Te Ao Māori
- Labour dismisses claims it is being 'greedy' by contesting by-election
- Tāmaki Makaurau by-election candidate Peeni Henare: I stand by my record
Economics
- Building industry hopes it's hit the bottom and there will be an eventual upturn
- Solar Group collapse: Kiwibank owed almost $2m, IR almost $1m (paywall)
- Banking and investment behaviour faces considerable change as the population ages
- Former Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr joins Cook Islands superannuation board (paywall)
Opinion
- The 'unbundled grocer' is a serious opportunity (paywall)
- No harm to consumers in fixing lending law loophole (paywall)
- Now we're paying attention, how should we manage retreat? (paywall)
- Siouxsie Wiles vs Auckland Uni – paying the price of litigation (paywall)
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