NZ Budget 2025 at a glance: follow the money here
Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivers her budget address in parliament. Getty Images Finance Minister Nicola Willis delivered a pragmatic budget […]
NZ Budget 2025: tax cuts and reduced revenues mean the government is banking on business growth
Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Not a lot is known about the government’s plans for taxes in the 2025 budget. Few tax
Interest rates are coming down. Here’s what homeowners should know about refinancing
doublelee/Shutterstock On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia cut the target cash rate by 0.25 percentage points. It now sits
NZ Budget 2025: science investment must increase as a proportion of GDP for NZ to innovate and compete
Shutterstock/Olivier Le Queinec A lack of strategy and research funding – by both the current and previous governments – has
The public service has a much smaller gender pay gap than the private sector. It’s a big achievement
NDAB Creativity/Shutterstock After two years of publishing the gender pay gaps of Australia’s private-sector companies, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency
‘Outdated and irrelevant’: what do young Australians think of their schooling?
LBeddoe/Shutterstock Australia’s school system – and whether it is doing its job – is often under the microscope from politicians,
Victorian budget has cash to splash on health, transport but new levies, job cuts, rising debt signal pain ahead
There was not a lot of cheer in the media reporting ahead of the 2025/6 Victorian budget released on Tuesday.
AI may be exposing jobseekers to discrimination. Here’s how we could better protect them
Studio Romantic/Shutterstock Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly transforming the world of work – not least, the process of hiring,
‘No pain, no gain’: why some primary students are following intense study routines
MNStudio/ Shutterstock Every year, thousands of New South Wales students sit a test to determine places for highly sought-after selective
NZ Budget 2025: anything less than a 5% increase in health funding amounts to merely standing still
Health Minister Simeon Brown. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Minister of Health Simeon Brown claimed earlier this year that health funding in