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The recently announced review of New Zealand’s lobbying sector needs to tackle questions of transparency and access if it is to make any real difference to how industries influence decision making. This includes establishing an enforceable register of lobbyists and introducing a cooling off period for former politicians before they…

National previews a hard sell approach worldwide to moving New Zealand products if it wins in October.

French President Emmanuel Macron may have pushed through his unpopular pension reform but only at great cost to his political capital, which he is now seeking to repair by offering talks with trade unions on other issues.

Mike Joy says two statistical methods used in a freshwater report are flawed

Number of working-age adults in work or job hunting is still lower than before pandemic, OECD figures show

You may have read this week that Australia’s super tax breaks are excessively generous (“well beyond any plausible purpose”) and that their costs unsustainable.

Russia’s alliance with China is becoming an increasingly one-sided affair.

Britain has been criticised for loading cost of accommodating refugees on to overseas aid budget

We need to get real about how we pay for the services we want if we are to fund a growing budget challenge

South Korean parents are being showered with cash, but experts say money alone will not fix country’s fertility woes.

Authoritarian regimes have ‘allies’ in ‘anti-growth movement’, former PM will tell right-wing think tank