PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: Dispute widens over legitimacy of National’s foreign buyer taxOPINION: Nicola Willis gives a big clue about tax rules.03 Sep 06:43 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionMatthew HootonMatthew Hooton: National’s tax plan is a cynical con jobOPINION: Savings must be used to repay our growing debt, not to buy off voters.01 Sep 01:00 AM
PremiumPremiumPoliticsThomas Coughlan: National’s $14.6b tax plan - does it add up?OPINION: Does the National plan deliver - and do the sums make sense?31 Aug 02:01 AM
KahuWillie Jackson confident of winning five Māori seats - but other two will be closeLabour's Māori strategist on their chances in the seven Māori seats.30 Aug 07:03 PM
PoliticsNats promise 'hope and help' as Labour slams 'voodoo costings'Foreign buyer property sales would be taxed at 15 per cent by Nats.30 Aug 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionAudrey YoungAudrey Young: The best and worst-behaved MPs in the House this yearOPINION: Audrey Young picks Parliament's best speech, worst answer and closest contest.30 Aug 06:20 AM
PremiumPremiumOpinionLiam DannLiam Dann: Nats' tax plan looks like a vote-winner - but is it good for the economy?OPINION: As the economy slides into recession, all tax cuts are risky.30 Aug 05:17 AM
PremiumPremiumPoliticsClaire Trevett: Nats' tax cuts hope 'squeezed middle' take money over the bagOPINION: The simplicity of tax cuts makes them a potent political weapon.30 Aug 01:13 AM
PoliticsNational to fund 'prudent' tax cuts with foreign buyer tax, immigration leviesLuxon said the plan would target the 'squeezed middle'.29 Aug 10:30 PM
PoliticsWinston Peters sounds alarm on Act's proposed changes to superannuationAct holds a different position from its potential coalition partner National.29 Aug 05:58 AM
PoliticsElection 2023: Nats way ahead in Ilam, denting TOP's chancesThe Opportunities Party's hopes of entering Parliament have been dealt a blow by a poll.29 Aug 05:30 AM
New ZealandVision from God: Brian Tamaki wants to 'break Parliament and lying politicians apart'Tamaki's political party planning more disruptive stunts following Luxon press conference.29 Aug 01:24 AM
PoliticsRevealed: Churches, charities to keep tax exemption under National planNational will release its tax plan for the election tomorrow.28 Aug 11:03 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionSimon WilsonSimon Wilson: How about a bonfire of the tax mistakes?OPINION: The link between Air NZ's 'staggering' profits and political donations.28 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionBryce Edwards: Is it now all over for the Labour Government?OPINION: The race had been looking close for much of the year.22 Aug 02:30 AM
PoliticsChris Hipkins promises 'vigorous campaign' as Labour drops in the pollsThe PM indicates he may take a leaf out of the Opposition's book.21 Aug 11:51 PM
PremiumPremiumPoliticsThousands of families, cyclone victims subject to CGT on family home under new rulesAn IRD interpretation may mean high tax via the bright-line test for many.21 Aug 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumEditorialEditorial: Co-operation better than point-scoringOPINION: A lot of New Zealand's problems are global.20 Aug 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionLiam DannLiam Dann: Has NZ lost its mojo? And can Christopher Luxon bring it back?OPINION: Getting that mojo rising, or just getting into the weeds with stats?19 Aug 10:49 PM
PremiumPremiumAged careExperts say giving KiwiSaver members more options could be costlyNational's KiwiSaver diversification proposal has been met with scepticism.18 Aug 04:16 AM
PoliticsThomas Coughlan: National's concerning lack of climate policiesOPINION: National's main climate policy is to repeal Labour's.16 Aug 05:01 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionSimon WilsonSimon Wilson: Labour and National are becalmed in a sea of voter scepticismOPINION: Will the two main parties ever learn to fill the sails of purpose and hope?14 Aug 05:00 PM
PoliticsNational vows to ban phone use at schools in bid to turn achievement aroundSchools would be able to decide penalties for students who didn't comply.08 Aug 07:25 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionLiam DannLiam Dann: Fiscal holy guacamole! Just how bad are the Crown accounts?OPINION: There's no question a slower economy means less tax.05 Aug 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumOpinionRoads v public transport. Why we can and should have bothOPINION: Sonya Bateson says we don't have to sacrifice one to gain the other.04 Aug 05:15 PM
PremiumPremiumPoliticsFiscal Hole Battle Royale! Peters v Seymour v Willis v RobertsonWinston Peters says there's a fiscal hole - he's mostly right.03 Aug 06:48 AM
PremiumPremiumNew ZealandPoll of Polls: Labour’s re-election chances seem to be evaporatingThere's now a greater chance of a hung Parliament than a Labour Government.03 Aug 02:03 AM
KahuRob Campbell: Will the big political issue be law and order - or the bigger picture?OPINION: A law and order focus for the election is too narrow and solves nothing.01 Aug 12:37 AM
New ZealandElection 2023: Nats vow to make Hawke's Bay Expressway four lanesNational places high priority on the Expressway, Napier-Taupō and Napier-Wairoa roads.31 Jul 01:19 AM
PremiumPremiumPolitics4000 secret interviews recorded with politicians - but you still can't listen to any of themSince the 1980s, prime ministers and MPs have recorded a diary - why they're still secret.23 Jul 05:00 PM
PremiumPremiumPoliticsLabour laughs as Christopher Luxon says he's ready for 'years' in oppositionThe National leader put his foot in it big-time on his first day back from recess.18 Jul 06:48 AM
PoliticsElectoral Commission was at Mongrel Mob hui along with Labour MPIngrid Leary has said she mistook it for an Electoral Commission meeting.04 Jul 05:42 AM
Politics'People don’t know you': Christopher Luxon challenged by supportersThe Nats' visit to Ōhāriu also included a 'practical approach' to avoiding chicken grease.03 Jul 06:36 AM
PremiumPremiumNew ZealandSimon Wilson: It’s time for a National Party ‘man ban’OPINION: National going backwards with its women MPs, and on crime, for similar reasons.26 Jun 07:39 AM