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Brian Fallow: Let's embrace our grey haired workers

Paul Holmes: Like a royal suitor, Brash sweeps Act into his arms

Workplace deaths, injuries cost NZ billions

Brian Fallow: Too soon to remove economy's bandages

Focus on basics to increase NZ's falling productivity

Damien Grant: AMI bail out rewards poor business practice

Pritchard joins AMI Insurance board

English resignation call just a Labour 'leadership bid': Key

English told quit over 'epic' SCF bill

Labour has called the Govt's revised $1.2b South Canterbury Finance bill a "disaster of epic proportions", saying Finance Minister Bill English "grossly mishandled" the situation and should resign as a result.

Dollar starts new climb

NZ dollar firm on ongoing risk appetite

The New Zealand dollar reached a seven-week high against the greenback today on further evidence of rising commodity prices while investors continued to be more comfortable with risk.

Earthquake bill so far: $1.1 billion

Prime Minister John Key said the Government has more spending to come, pointing at an EQC net cost estimate of $1.5b for the latest quake.

Deficit figures point to budget pressures, Key says

A $1.7 billion higher-than-forecast deficit points to the fiscal challenges the Government faces in its May budget, Prime Minister John Key says.

Sth Canterbury loans cost Govt extra $331m

The government's finances have taken a $331 million hit, largely due to problems recovering money from failed South Canterbury Finance's tangled set of related party loans.

Crown dividend and interest income lower than expected