ANALYSIS: : After a difficult year, New Zealand enters 2026 with the foundations for a slow, steady recovery, with cautious optimism.
Apart from navigating US President Trumps tariff announcements, also on Braid’s Mainfreight plate in 2025 is the vexed question of what will be done about the Cook Strait ferry debacle.
ANALYSIS: Why doing something always beats doing nothing.
An unauthorised biography looks back and forward on a controversial prime minister.
ANALYSIS: Required is leadership from universities, commitment from senior academics, and a collective willingness to re-imagine how research careers are built.
ANALYSIS: Winston Peters and Christopher Luxon disagree over asset sales.
ANALYSIS: Shareholders may well discover a bee in the hand is worth two in the bush.
ANALYSIS: Burdened by a costly external management contract for years, the property fund grabs a $214m exit.
ANALYSIS: Christopher Luxon wants the debate on asset sales to go beyond the usual rhetoric.
ANALYSIS: A spate of arrests and prosecutions has revealed some audacious scams from fraudsters taking advantage of their roles in major organisations.