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Crown to appeal decision that carer parents should be paid

The Crown is appealing a landmark Human Rights Review Tribunal decision enabling parents caring for severely disabled adult children to be paid.

Property listings hurt by tax speculation

ACC moves should worry - CTU

ACC unit targeting high-cost clients

Should parents who act as carers for their severely disabled adult children receive financial support from the Government?

ACC's 'offensive' email

An ACC staff member emailed a recent widow saying: "Just so you know ... I am not God and therefore I do not determine when people live or die".

Should third-party vehicle insurance be compulsory?

Ministers back off compulsory third-party cover

$1300 for each of us - what ACC will cost

Steep rises in levies mean a person on the average wage with one car will pay $1300 to ACC each year - $180 more than they do now.

ACC chairman denies acting politically

ACC board chairman John Judge today rejected an allegation he had acted politically over levy proposals.

Average worker hit with $200 ACC levy hikes

The Govt's ACC levy increases are less than were recommended by the ACC board but still about $200 a year for an average income worker with a car.

'Charter for rapists' - critics savage ACC

Therapists and counsellors say tight new rules for claiming ACC subsidies for sexual abuse counselling have become "a rapists' charter"

Lockwood Smith, PM top performers in pundit's rankings

Speaker Lockwood Smith has dethroned Prime Minister as 2009's top parliamentary performer, a newsletter claims.

Recession will be felt 'for some time' says English

Govt pulling in less tax than forecast

ACC, Super Fund prop up Govt books as tax take dwindles

The investment portfolios of ACC and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund continued to prop up the government's books as corporate and personal tax revenues dwindled, says Treasury.