First-home buyers big winners, prices 'could tumble 10pc'
Investors have been targeted with tax changes to help stem soaring house prices.
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Minister digs heels in over 'cocky' tourism comments
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Collins calls Robertson a liar over bright-line test tax changes
Judith Collins has accused Grant Robertson of flat-out lying to the public.
Housing plan: $3.8b for new houses, speculators horrified by 'crazy' tax changes
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Key changes of today's policy changes explained.
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Ardern's housing package to 'tilt the balance' to first-home buyers today
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Ardern says Oz bubble means any outbreak could strand travellers
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Eight new Covid cases in MIQ, vaccine schedule tool now online
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Eight new MIQ cases, none in the community
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Call for Govt to issue apology for 1970s dawn raids
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Kerre McIvor: Time Govt stops hiding behind Covid and tackles issues fuelling violence
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Govt grants thousands of Covid MIQ fee waiver requests
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Exclusive: How 'vulnerable' hospital services will change
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Editorial: Carrot and stick options for the housing market
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'It is unsustainable, it lacks resilience': Tourism Minister says old tourism model must go
Tourism Minister promises targeted help but didn't reveal any details.
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Queenstown protest canned after good Aussie travel bubble news
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Parliament erupts in applause in congratulating Team New Zealand
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Transtasman bubble to be discussed next week - April possible start date
Transtasman bubble by mid-April? Cabinet ministers will discuss this on Monday.
Transtasman travel bubble at least three weeks away
Has the Govt been told the earliest possible date that a transtasman bubble could start?