Businesses do not benefit from a system that fails to properly screen applicants for a job, it says.
Mike Bennetts says the economic response to the Covid-19 pandemic poses risks to climate action.
Politics: The party is treading a careful line between short-term stimulus and new spending discipline.
Some monetary policy committee members think the second lockdown in Auckland dented confidence.
Labour wants waterways cleaned up but National says the regulations aren’t practical for farmers.
Election 2020: NZ First diverges from Labour over Covid-19 response and economic policy.
Jacinda Ardern says there is no costless way to respond to Covid-19.
Geoff Simmons says housing is sucking up productivity investment and driving poverty.
National and Labour differ on whether the GDP figure for the June quarter was good or bad news.
No party is proposing a silver bullet to immediate worker shortages and international student losses.