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Kerre Woodham: Was holding the OCR the right decision?
So what would you rather? A little bit of pain now or a whole lot more later? The Reserve Bank yesterday opted to keep the official cash rate at 2.25…
5 months, 1 week ago
Jess Strange: Southern Cross Travel Insurance Chief Customer Officer on what travel insurance covers, the cost of not having it
No matter how meticulously you plan, there’s always a chance something will go wrong while travelling.
New data from Southern Cross Travel Insurance…
5 months, 1 week ago
Kerre Woodham: Have you crunched the numbers with your new rates bill?
Have you done the sums yet to work out how much more you're going to have to pay, how much more you're going to have to find to pay the rates bill? W…
5 months, 1 week ago
Hannah McQueen: Age Brightly Founder discusses options for those with fixed incomes struggling with rates increases
Fear the cost of living crisis may be getting worse for Aucklanders following the super city's largest ever rates increase.
The 7.9% rise will see …
5 months, 1 week ago
Andrew Dickens: Gas rationing and transition schemes
Thirty years ago, I was the station manager and breakfast announcer at a very small experimental talk station in Auckland called ‘The Point’ on 1476 …
5 months, 1 week ago
Andrew Dickens: Local council amalgamation could see less say for smaller towns
I was in the Coromandel over the weekend and I was reading their regional paper which still exists, The Informer, and in it was an article by Jeffrey…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Andrew Dickens: The social housing overhaul creates both winners and losers
The Government has unveiled a major overhaul of social housing, creating both winners and losers.
So what is social housing? Social housing provides…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Andrew Dickens: Should there be incentives to increase our EV fleet?
Let's talk EVs. And I better make the declaration straight away; I am an EV driver. There is a new state of the nation report from an organisation ca…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Andrew Dickens: Is the Government counting its chickens before they hatch?
Let's start with the big story of the day: the Finance Minister yesterday unveiling a major plan to shrink the public service. It's putting thousands…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Andrew Dickens: Have we forgotten how to safely put babies to bed?
A five month old baby boy by the name of Bodhi lived in Hawke's Bay, and in October 2022 was found unresponsive in his sleeping pod. The sleeping pod…
5 months, 2 weeks ago