This year’s El Niño is likely to be the strongest on record. That would boost some fruit supplies – but it could also push up wheat, sugar and beef prices.
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Almost one in seven jobs in Nepal rely on tourism. Travellers need to consider these things before planning a return to Nepal.
The rush to build data centres brings investment and the promise of a sophisticated digital economy. But it also creates new pressure on housing and skilled workers.
Reducing the number of people on student and graduate visas may reduce migration numbers, but it could also weaken demand for Australian goods and services.
Governments can curb corporate power. But first we need to understand how corporate law allows private ventures to accumulate power that can endure for generations.
A survey of young New Zealanders finds four in ten didn’t view buy now, pay later as debt. That perception can influence how they use it.
In a stubbornly male dominated field, how brilliant did a woman have to be to succeed?
Australia’s laws don’t deal with all the ways local profits are shifted offshore. The ATO aims to close that gap.
Private investment promises new money and expertise for NZ netball. But its success will depend on who benefits – and what happens to the wider game.
Anxiety about automation dates back hundreds of years.
With food inflation over 128%, ordinary households are seeing – and documenting – the impact of sanctions at the checkout.
Ideas are cheap. Getting major reforms through is the hard part, but we’ve done it before.
The illicit market for tobacco is not an inevitable result of high excise taxes.
Businesses are increasingly turning to AI and personalised data to become more efficient. Will that leave workers earning less and customers paying more?
Until we do more to tackle the causes of high construction company insolvencies, we’ll keep seeing more headlines about builders going bust.
Australia and New Zealand should introduce a mandatory impact-risk statement for funds making explicit claims about their environmental or social impacts.
The alleged theft of thousands of sheep in Queensland shows how difficult it can be to detect and prevent farm crime.
A lawyer who worked on a class action against tobacco makers says the Meta deal mirrors the playbook of Big Tobacco – and will cost only a few days’ revenue.
It’s an attractively neat idea. But when it came to paying Roman soldiers, coins did the job admirably.
An outright ban is legally risky. Here are some safer options.
The growth figures for June beat expectations – helped in part by record EV sales. But on a per-person basis, the economy is not doing so well.
The Reserve Bank has increased the official cash rate to 2.75%. But much of the inflation affecting New Zealand wallets is imported and beyond the bank’s control.
With no clear plan to curb government spending in the US or in Australia, investors are pushing up interest rates to decade highs.
As more details emerge about this controversial deal, big questions remain about what it could mean – both for oil markets and Venezuela’s national sovereignty.
Public debt interest payments are the fastest growing area of federal government spending. See what changed, and why, from 1990 to today.