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Globally and locally there’s uncertainty in the commercial real estate sector. Interest rates and inflation are rising, and organisations are still working out what their offices will look like in a post-Covid world. BNZ’s Phil Bennett ponders seven likely trends for 2023 | Content partnership

2022 has been the year of reckoning: Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, central banks hiking interest rates at the fastest rate in almost 40 years, the implosion of the crypto space , and the year the tech stocks tanked.

Poor decision-making this year by autocratic leaders has led to greater instability in their political systems, impacting New Zealand’s external environment. While we cannot control the weaknesses in other countries’ political systems, Nicholas Khoo argues it is time to ask some tough questions.

A Newsroom investigation has uncovered further details about alleged transnational policing by Chinese officials in our country - but the man tied to the centre denies involvement in police work.

Progress as countries like NZ and India incorporate indigenous systems of knowledge and law into their existing legal systems, recognising forests and rivers under a 'rights of nature' doctrine.

The country wants to be completely smoke-free by 2025.

As NZ reports another quarter of slow economic growth, it is combining with inflationary pressures to pose a worrying economic outlook – here and around the world. A resilient China can help NZ through a worrying economic future.

Six years on from the report revealing the dire state of women's cricket in NZ, an update shows the game to be much healthier - but with still much work to do to achieve equity, Suzanne McFadden writes.

Dirty money, literally and figuratively, is at the centre of a lawsuit focusing on SkyCity Adelaide, reports Andrew Bevin

As Ukraine's president reminds the New Zealand Parliament of the two countries' tragic ties, the parents of a man shot down in Flight MH17 plead for peace, not weapons.

Although it has yet to begin work, the first finding of the forthcoming royal commission into New Zealand’s COVID-19 response has probably just been written by Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier.