Wellington News

The Legal Aid Review findings on corrupt lawyers exploiting the system for personal gain are disappointing, Labour's justice spokeswoman Lianne Dalziel said today. Dame Margaret Bazley, who headed the independent review released this morning, said there could be as many...

The trade balance for October 2009 was a deficit of $487 million or 16.4 percent of the value of exports. This compares with an average October deficit of 30.0 percent of exports for the previous five years. Most import commodity...

The BNZ Home Loan Affordability measure for all of New Zealand showed the proportion of a single median after tax income needed to service an 80% mortgage on a median house rose by 3.2 percentage point to 61.9%. This was...

Televised breast surgery, "sustained personal abuse" of Fire Service representatives and fake interviews with war medal thieves all contributed to the growing number of broadcasting complaints laid last year. The figures were revealed this morning when the Broadcasting Standards Authority...