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Planning laws stacked against first home buyers - English

Bill English on Q+A

Current planning laws are “explicitly designed to drive up housing values”, Finance Minister says.

BNZ boss wants tax changes to boost savings' appeal vs housing and property

BNZ CEO Andrew Thorburn on The Nation (TV3)

Thorburn also calls for compulsory KiwiSaver and higher contributions.

Breakfast in schools: it just doesn't work

Often it doesn't increase the odds that kids eat breakfast at all (TV3)

GUEST COMMENT: Studies show no great benefit from public funding, such as the programme our government is poised to unveil in a fortnight.

Confessions of a former leftie

Rodney Hide

HIDESIGHT I believed people couldn’t be left alone to do as they please: they were too greedy, the market too capricious, resources too precious and the planet too fragile.