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Carmen Hall
Multimedia journalist
Multimedia journalist
We are your advocate, Aotearoa. Uncovering stories that matter, asking hard-hitting questions of those in power, live-blogging sport events, monitoring the highs and lows of the NZX and providing Premium expert opinion and analysis. Bringing you distinctive, quality journalism and breaking news from across New Zealand and around the world. With specialists working together to create indepth reads, engaging video, and unmissable podcasts.
Check out Carmen’s latest content
'Secrecy only benefits the employers': Should people's salaries be made public?
New figures show job listings featuring salaries have risen by about a third in a year.
'Professional dreamer': Life after battling perils of poverty, P and homelessness
'We put the lost and the lonely and the broken back together again.'
Can you afford a crisis? 7 savvy savers' tips for building an emergency fund
Tips from a beneficiary saving $10 a week, a student with $39k at 22, and a $1m family.
Revealed: What not to talk about in your next job interview
'Talk about it at offer – you don’t have to talk about it at application'
'Amazing tenancy demand': Build costs and interest rates hit $200m sold-out Tauranga development
'If we see a drop in interest rates next year then I think it will start to stimulate.'
'Hellishly dangerous': Row erupts after two-inch longline hook snags beachgoer
Man, dog and boogie boarder get caught up by fishing line.
'Overwhelmed with joy': Young couple on pathway to owning home
"I cried. We are so grateful and thankful for the opportunity.”
Heartbreaking: Kids make sacrifices to help mum and dad pay the mortgage
"Every single dollar that one can save is important."
His weekly mortgage payment hit $1000 a week. It was the last straw
About 80 per cent of fixed-term loans due to reprice in less than two years.
'Risking it all': The couple touring NZ to pitch new cafe app - face to face
'We put everything in storage and sold or donated pretty much everything else'
'Tarnished': How migrant exploitation cases are harming NZ's reputation overseas
The cost of living and crime are other turnoffs for skilled workers.
Trust pumps $10m into housing, Māori development, move to high-wage economy
"We’re looking at ways we can maximise the impact we’re having."
“A nice blue, National Party evening': Rutherford claims victory in Bay of Plenty
With 34,514 of the votes counted, Rutherford had 19,589 votes.
Boss 'blindsided': Migrants quit for jobs with better residency path under new rules
'We just have to roll with the punches and see what happens.'
'No place like home': Why record numbers of Kiwis have returned from Australia
The number of Kiwis returning home from Australia has jumped by 46 per cent.
Demolishing the construction gender gap: Inside the push to get more women tradies
'Having the right crew to work with' is key, says a 23yo woman with all-male colleagues.
'Massive workforce crisis ': Tradie skills shortage despite soaring apprenticeship numbers
More than $652 million has been paid to employers on Apprenticeship Boost.
Hipkins in Tauranga: Labour leader addresses five hot election topics
Hipkins: 'Watch this space ... there hasn’t been enough competition in the grocery sector'
Chris Hipkins hits Tauranga on campaign trail
The Labour leader is in blue territory today.
'Absolutely devastating': Homeless man's tents, treasured items stolen
Possessions worth thousands of dollars were stolen.
$200k-$300k a year: The workers doubling their money in Australia
Australia aggressively markets jobs with significant salaries and relocation packages.
Let's go party: Artist who turned David Seymour into Barbie Ken is just getting started
'I just wanted to put a little bit of happiness in the community.'
Heartbreaking choice: Mum 'trapped in motel' can't have all her kids to stay
'On a good day, it still tears us apart … we are on tenterhooks.'
'Gone to Aussie': Infrastructure workers ditch NZ for more money, year-round work
"We find it really, really hard to find skilled, drug-free staff."
'Landlords have left the industry': City's rental listings plummet
Fears mum-and-dad investors are being 'squeezed out'.
'Cop-out': Calls for 'lethargic' Crown to break Treaty settlement stalemate
'We're getting grumpy. We’ve been protesting since the start of 2016.'