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Last spin of the loom: how carpet can salvage NZ's dying wool industry

Kiwi carpet-maker Bremworth will today announce new 10-year supply contracts to provide its farmers certainty – and the agriculture minister wants agencies to look favourably on NZ wool carpets. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Capture carbon or cut the concrete on net zero path

Little is made of trying to use less concrete in industry net zero plan, reports Andrew Bevin

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We are bending the climate curve

Newly-released data shows greenhouse gas emissions continued to fall through 2022, suggesting New Zealand has passed peak climate pollution.

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Lies, damned lies, and census figures

The problem with assessing census targets now is what we don’t know, argues David Williams.

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Floods, cyclone put New Zealand in slender recession

New Zealand experienced a shallow recession after two quarters of negative GDP growth to March 2023, data released by Stats NZ shows.

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New Zealand on recession knife-edge as GDP data looms

Economists are at odds as to whether New Zealand books a recession when Stats NZ releases first quarter GDP data.

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Stats NZ scurries to rescue $317m census

The first release of census data has been delayed by two months

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New Zealand sheep outnumber people less than 5 to 1, a record low

Wellington (AFP) - New Zealand's sheep outnumber people by fewer than five to one, official figures showed Monday, clipping their lead over humans to the lowest level since the 1850s.

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Budget 2023 won't move dial on R&D 'hole'

The Govt is committed to a target of getting investment to 2% of GDP as a way to “help build a high-skill, knowledge-based and more productive economy”. This is not a Budget to get us there.

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Push to break up overpriced supermarket duopoly and sell groceries online

The Government's steps to make food prices more internationally competitive won't be enough – it needs to open up the wholesale chain and force supermarkets to sell stores, says a new Westpac NZ report.

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Scientist pokes holes in water data

Mike Joy says two statistical methods used in a freshwater report are flawed

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Census turnout low despite $37m blowout

Concerns are being expressed over low returns as the census budget potentially leaps to $300 million.

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Child poverty hurting one in 10 New Zealand kids

The Child Poverty Action Group say New Zealand kids face a bleak future without investment in the poorest households.

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New Zealand GDP down 0.6 per cent in Q4 2022

New Zealand has had a 0.6 per cent contraction in GDP in the December 2022 quarter, beginning a predicted 2023 dip a quarter earlier than expected.

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NZ hikes welfare payments as fruit and veg prices soar

Food prices are on the rise again in New Zealand, particularly for fruit and vegetables, as inflation worsens in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.

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Everybody counts (but not twice, please)

Stats NZ is confident it can remove duplicate responses to the census

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Trust in census a big issue, survey suggests

Many Māori and Pacific men say they won’t participate in the census

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Census call to Minister this weekend

A decision on whether to delay all or part of the census is imminent

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Govt to consider deferring $259m census due to Cyclone Gabrielle

On the day census packs were to begin being hand-delivered to households, Stats NZ withdrew all North Island staff from the field. David Williams reports.

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Census 2023: Getting the count right

There are high hopes that improvements made to this year's Census will result in a better turnout than 2018.

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I bought air-freighted mangoes; if you don't approve, bite me!

The rain this summer is without precedent; the increase in local fruit and vege prices will be similarly unparalleled. Jonathan Milne reports.

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'Dream turns to nightmare' as foundations of building industry erode

Civil construction firms are hitting rock bottom, caught between this summer's tropical downpours and rising concrete prices, reports Jonathan Milne.

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Big bump in pay for census field staff

An $8 million boost means census collectors will get higher wages

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Small print shows the impact of inflation isn’t 7.2% but a massive 8.7%

Stats NZ publishes a figure for consumers price index plus interest payments, that undermines Government's claim that 'inflation has peaked'. Jonathan Milne reports.

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NZ inflation stays red-hot 7.2 per cent

NZ Finance Minister Grant Robertson says 1.4 per cent CPI rise in the December quarter, down from 2.2 per cent in September, suggests inflation has peaked.

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