Environment minister David Parker has attacked the National party as “vandals” for promising to repeal several of the government's measures...

The new Australian government has agreed to one of the most momentous changes to immigration policy for New Zealanders since the Closer Economic Relations agree...

Auckland mayor Wayne Brown pushed for the company investigating light rail to give greater consideration to a cheaper surface-running option, he says.Brown trav...

Using KiwiSaver for rental bonds is the most financially irresponsible thing I’ve heard in years.In case you missed it, the National party has just announ...

A National party-led government would repeal Resource Management Act (RMA) reforms by Christmas, if elected, according to the party’s RMA reform spokesman...

The Christchurch city council has approved an initiative to charge vacant land owners in the central city higher rates.A majority of councillors supported the p...

My Food Bag co-founder Theresa Gattung has been revealed as a benefactor of women’s domestic violence outreach group The Aunties’ founder Jackie Cla...

There's no shortage of warnings about the lack of junior doctors in our healthcare system, but every year New Zealand is choosing not to employ doctors who...

Multiple poorly managed conflicts of interest, no formal procurement plan, and a failure to properly appoint a probity auditor are among the failings in the hea...

The education system needs to dump 'child-centred' education in favour of 'teacher-structured' learning if New Zealand is to turn around its dec...

A cheaper, surface-running light rail option is still being looked at as part of the planning process for Auckland light rail.However, it’s being consider...

If you were to buy a bag of leafy greens in North America, there is a very good chance that it touched a piece of tech developed in New Zealand.Thirty years ago...

The government’s polytechnic mega-merger is seeking an additional $330.2 million to complete the creation of a single national training organisation, $285...

The Act party has released an alternative budget, ahead of the government’s on May 19, proposing to introduce a two-rate personal income tax system that w...

I was with a client when the prime minister announced her resignation and my associate – a young, super-smart woman just back from parental leave with a s...

Dear BusinessDesk subscribers,BusinessDesk has agreed to an acquisition offer from NZ Herald publisher NZME, announced to the NZX this morning.This is obviously...

BusinessDesk is delighted to announce the appointment of Dileepa Fonseka to a senior correspondent’s role.“This is a key hire for us in an election...

Even if you know what a non-fungible token (NFT) is, you might not have thought buying one part-designed by a man called Omelettes could help save the endangere...

The Reserve Bank has confirmed that it has indeed lost or is losing 10 senior staff since June after earlier telling parliament's finance and expenditure co...

The Three Waters television ad campaign that used taxpayers’ money to influence the opinions of ratepayers was cut short after intervention by the Public...

The National party says it’s committed to housing intensification measures, despite comments from a senior MP that appeared to open the door to possible c...

New Zealand's burgeoning space industry will now see a space mission control centre established in Auckland to command a new satellite being launched to mon...

Brian Gaynor passed away this morning, after a brief illness.Brian co-founded Milford Asset Management and was instrumental in the revitalisation of BusinessDes...

An infrastructure advocacy group has commissioned research suggesting the flow-on benefits of investing in two new roads could be worth hundreds of millions of...

This story is part of our Waste is Money series. Read part 1 and part 2.Two growing firms are challenging the dominant players in New Zealand's waste indust...

BusinessDesk editor Pattrick Smellie has taken out best columnist and best business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards.In a stunning night f...

The Act party is proposing to remove all remaining trade tariffs unilaterally as part of its plan to curb inflation.Other policies announced on Thursday include...

As a kid, I desperately wanted to work in an office. I watched people shuffling between the Wellington railway station and their high-rise offices on Lambt...

If it weren’t for Brian Gaynor, there would be no BusinessDesk.His investment, just over three years ago, transformed a business wire service that had run...

New Zealand’s best independent business news service, BusinessDesk, is pleased to announce key hires and new initiatives as it pursues growth despite the...

New Zealand company boards have the wrong people on them and spend too much time focusing on the wrong things, says David Teece.Teece is one of the world’...

The Green Party has launched its first major new policy for the Sept. 19 election, ditching its previous advocacy of a capital gains tax for wealth taxes target...

At a recent conference, Ross Copland, chief executive of the Infrastructure Commission, Te Waihanga, presented a remarkable graph alongside a video of an old Mi...

Now that the thunderous reaction to the government’s big property measures announcement last week has abated a little, it’s worth digging a bit more...

National’s energy spokesman and potential future minister has repeated lines from a prominent physicist downplaying the climate crisis, as well as liking...

“Help me, if you can. I’m feeling down. And I do appreciate you being around. Help me get my feet back on the ground. Won’t you please, please...

Ministers have been given advice on whether KiwiRail’s current form as a state-owned enterprise (SOE) is right for the government's priorities.The min...

BusinessDesk’s Dan Brunskill has taken out the Emerging Journalist Award in the New Zealand Shareholders Association’s (NZSA) annual NZ Business Jou...

Welcome to On the Money, our column about money and the people making it.Can Raf Manji tip Top back into contention?Will former Christchurch city councillor and...

New Zealand is an “island nation in a pandemic planet” but is not taking advantage of the opportunity that presents, ACT Party leader David Seymour says. The...

When we launched the Business of Health series, we expected it might be tricky to access financial information and other data from the private sector. Businesse...

Nonprofit fund manager Simplicity is setting up a dedicated housing fund with the ambitious goal of building and funding 25,000 homes over the next 10-15 years....

Members of Grounded Kiwis have had their first day in court, with their lawyer arguing that public health considerations had eclipsed the “foundational ri...

The church whose pastor called bisexuals gutless and labelled US police murder victim George Floyd a villain is the most complained about charity in New Zealand...

Cost overruns on major infrastructure projects, or blowouts, have become so common that the costs of new project announcements are generally taken with a large...

A high court judgment ordering the government to reconsider its decisions on emissions trading scheme settings may help restore some confidence in the troubled...

A “modern, mature debate” about the appropriate level of government debt is needed if New Zealand is to catch up with its deep infrastructure defici...

One of the country’s largest-ever resource consenting processes is now under way, covering 18% of New Zealand’s electricity generation and bringing...

PwC and Russell McVeagh are to restrict their offices to people who have received both doses of the covid-19 vaccine.Both businesses are the first of their kind...

The last two weeks of the election campaign included a small flurry of polls being released.The last of these was a Roy Morgan poll released on the Friday befor...

For the $120 million cost of the next Let’s Get Wellington Moving business case, the government could fund all the capital improvements for a 10-year bus...

A new nurse training facility in Auckland has been sitting empty since the end of last year, unable to open because of regulations on nurse training that were a...

The National party is calling for a review of a policy that prevents some permanent residents from accessing student loans, while the Green party wants to remov...

A sea level rise of 20 centimetres would expose nearly 20,000 properties worth $14 billion in Christchurch and Banks Peninsula to coastal hazards.The Christchur...

News of Jake Millar’s death in Kenya on the weekend was greeted with shock but also white-hot anger by many who knew the 26-year-old entrepreneur.Millar&r...

Christchurch space company Dawn Aerospace has been given a $75,000 grant to improve the fuel used to power its satellite propulsion system and make the space in...

Welcome to My Net Worth, our regular column on the lives and motivations of our country’s top business, legal and political people in their own words.&nbs...

For nigh on 50 years, West Auckland’s pubs and bottle stores have been monopolised by a pair of licensing trusts.The Portage and Waitakere Licensing Trust...

In density-ambivalent Christchurch, developers Brooksfield are building competitively priced townhouses with a focus on design.Their approach, inspired by Georg...

BusinessDesk has been nominated for five awards at the Newspaper Publishers’ Association Voyager journalism awards.The publication has four finalists acro...

Most journalists who go into public relations never look back.For reasons not worth going into, I did.And since the Auckland couple who absconded to Wānaka are...

As the traditional news media grapples with an uncertain future and falling readership, one New Zealand outfit is in the enviable position of reaching millions...

Greater Christchurch ratepayers would likely have to pay up to $110 extra a year to cover the cost of fare-free public transport.Doing away with fares would res...

The United States investment bank where outgoing Christchurch City Holdings (CCHL) chief executive Tim Boyd allegedly claimed to have worked says it has never e...

After years of frustration, New Zealand’s news publishers have drawn the battle lines in their fight against big tech.On Thursday evening, news groups inc...

Today we launch BusinessDesk’s Public Sector Explorer. Built on a database painstakingly assembled by a team of our journalists, the tool is the firs...

Government submitters on a proposed Auckland plan change are seeking far greater levels of housing intensification. The council on Monday published submiss...

Government housing agency Kāinga Ora has opposed two major proposals put forward by Christchurch city council to limit housing intensification.The council on Fr...

The BusinessDesk/NZ Herald podcast Cooking the Books has cracked two million downloads since BusinessDesk investments editor Frances Cook’s first episode...

A proposal for the government to support the renewal of the inshore fishing fleet has been branded as an inappropriate handout. However, industry body Seaf...

As late as April this year, KiwiRail was proposing running peak hour trains for commuters during a major Auckland rebuild programme. When the $330 million...

Hitting a national goal to reduce transport emissions only requires a 1% reduction in the collective distance New Zealanders drive by 2035.The figure will come...

Supreme court judge Joe Williams will tomorrow deliver an Ivan Kwok memorial lecture at the annual conference of the Institute of Public Administration of NZ. N...

Are the right criteria and the right people considered when New Zealand's public service leadership is appointed? This is the third in a series of arti...

We are probably in a global and local recession right now.It could be short-lived, but my inner pessimist expects that interest rate hikes by inflation-fighting...

Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr is performing an increasingly political role, risking the credibility of the central bank and hurting rather than helping the N...

The electricity system broke a record last Friday, reaching 99% renewable generation for the first time.Transpower said in its weekly briefing note that full hy...

Spark has helped create a free open-source tool for any business to use so they can include non-binary gender options in online data capture forms.The telco wor...

New Zealand has topped the charts for life-work balance, according to a new study by Remote, a remote employee payroll and support software company.The San Fran...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) subverted the usual procurement process for contracts over $100,000 to award the contract for New Zealand’s digital Covid-19...

Despite months of covid-related lockdowns in Auckland, the New Zealand economy continued to add jobs at pace in 2021.The number of filled jobs grew by 4.3% in t...

BusinessDesk took home three awards at last night’s New Zealand Shareholders Association Business Journalism Awards from a record number of entries.Invest...

Businesses are struggling to get enough workers into the country and hundreds of families remain separated after more than a year apart.But despite reports of l...

The main construction contract for Auckland's light rail may not be awarded until September 2025, tender documents suggest.The Ministry of Transport is call...

Kimbyr Investments, operator of major retail chains including Just Jeans, Smiggle and Portmans, has returned $8 million to its Australian parent after taking $4...

How will even more compliance make accreditation simpler for employers? More importantly, how will pricing skilled migrants out of the job market help our econo...

Welcome to My Net Worth, our regular feature on the lives and motivations of our top businesspeople, in their own words. Deborah Pead was born in the Unite...

Housing has been a great investment.  House prices in Auckland have increased by 8.1% per year on average since 1992, according to the Real Estate Institut...