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FemLINKPACIFIC Rural Women’s Day 2013: Food Security

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:32:25 +1300 | femLINKPACIFIC

Improving the overall status of rural women is more than just a social welfare project. It requires the recognition that rural women’s needs and concerns including great disparities in income and quality of life.More >>

China warming to TPP, bi-partisan NZ approach vital: Groser

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:43:34 +1300 | BusinessDesk

Oct. 16 (BusinessDesk) – New Zealand risks an error of historic proportions if opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership sees the country left out of a trade deal that will almost certainly encompass China in due course, Trade Minister Tim ...More >>

Price increases hitting low incomes and people in Canterbury

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:22:21 +1300 | Council of Trade Unions

“The sharp increase in the CPI this quarter, bringing it to a 1.4 percent increase for the year, is mainly in areas that hurt lower income families. In addition people in Canterbury are particularly hard hit”, says Bill Rosenberg, CTU economist.More >>

Overseas experience to boost FMD preparation

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:17:46 +1300 | New Zealand Government

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced that a delegation of 10 veterinarians, farming leaders and MPI staff will take part in foot and mouth disease (FMD) training in Asia next year to experience working with the disease first hand.More >>

NZ consumer prices rise at fastest quarterly pace in 2 years

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:57:22 +1300 | BusinessDesk

NZ consumer prices rise at fastest quarterly pace in 2 years, annual inflation back within RBNZ target More >>

Petrol and seasonal vegetable prices push up CPI

Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:56:55 +1300 | Statistics New Zealand

The consumers price index (CPI) rose 0.9 percent in the September 2013 quarter, Statistics NZ said today. More than half of the rise came from higher petrol prices and seasonally high vegetable prices.More >>

Treasury tables 2012/13 Annual Report

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:20:43 +1300 | New Zealand Treasury

The Treasury’s Annual Report for the fiscal year that ended on 30 June 2013 has been tabled in Parliament and published on its website. More >>

Kiwi to remain supported as growth accelerates: AMP Capital

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 15:14:32 +1300 | BusinessDesk

Oct. 15 (BusinessDesk) – The New Zealand dollar, which has gained 2.6 percent the past month, is likely to continue to find favour on the back of an improving economy, according to investment fund manager AMP Capital New Zealand. More >>

New Zealand’s economic recovery fuels jobs growth momentum

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:53:16 +1300 | Hays

Quantity Surveyors, Senior Management Accountants and G&B Line Mechanics are just three of the professionals sought by employers as the New Zealand economy bounces back from the earthquakes that shook the country’s second city of Christchurch ...More >>

Labour caught making stuff up – again

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 13:03:34 +1300 | New Zealand Government

Results from the 2013 Census shows Labour and its leader have been caught making stuff up with population growth spread right across the country, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce says.More >>

Auckland fastest-growing region, SI districts grow most

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 11:44:07 +1300 | Statistics New Zealand

Auckland’s population grew by over 110,000 people since the 2006 Census, while Selwyn, Queenstown-Lakes, and Waimakariri were the fastest-growing districts in the country, Statistics New Zealand said today.More >>

Wage, price pressures ‘inevitable’ from building boom: RBNZ

Tue, 15 Oct 2013 10:40:35 +1300 | BusinessDesk

Oct. 15 (BusinessDesk) – The building boom looming in Christchurch and Auckland in the next three years will inevitably put upward pressure on wages and prices in the construction sector and could spill over into general inflation, driving up interest ...More >>

Adams extends olive branch in late tweaks to intercept bill

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 18:25:40 +1300 | BusinessDesk

Oct. 14 (BusinessDesk) - Communications Minister Amy Adams is offering an olive branch to the telecommunications sector with some late tweaks to legislation setting out their obligations to provide government surveillance agencies with access to their ...More >>

Statement at International Monetary and Financial Committee

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 15:46:20 +1300 | US State Department

Five years ago, the world economy was faced with a devastating crisis. Together, our countries committed to and implemented a swift and aggressive emergency response that helped calm financial markets, repair and reform our financial systems, and ...More >>

Census shows regional exodus under Nats

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 14:14:44 +1300 | New Zealand Labour Party

Census data being released tomorrow will depict a widespread exodus from the regions as provincial New Zealanders flee small towns forgotten by the National Government, Labour Leader and Regional Development spokesperson David Cunliffe says.More >>

Gordon Campbell on the US meltdown and welfare reform

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 13:40:40 +1300 | Gordon Campbell

It seems incredible that a tiny faction of the Republican opposition in the US Senate can hold to ransom the entire country - and the global economy - unless their demands to re-write US law are met.More >>

NZ median house price returns to March record $400,000

Mon, 14 Oct 2013 12:37:31 +1300 | BusinessDesk

Oct. 14 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand’s median house price returned to its March record last month, with gains in both Auckland and Canterbury, while the number of properties sold jumped by about a fifth in the last month before restrictions on ...More >>