As new COVID cases stay low, New Zealand looks towards easing of restrictions
New Zealand’s daily COVID-19 numbers continue to provide good news as the nation continues to suppress a Delta outbreak.
- by Luke Malpass
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‘That’s not a lockdown. This is a lockdown’: Much hangs on Ardern’s COVID elimination strategy
The defining characteristics of Jacinda Ardern’s “go hard, go early” strategy has been the deployment of strict lockdowns that would make most Australians wince.
- by Luke Malpass
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Coronavirus pandemic
'Saint Jacinda' Ardern's lockdown has not silenced her critics
Ardern may be very popular but she remains a fallible person dealing with real problems.
- by Luke Malpass and Thomas Coughlan
Banks maintain support for NZ farmers despite bad debts ticking up
New Zealand's finance minister Bill English says the country's banks – Australia's big four – are expecting a tick-up in bad loans as low milk prices pressure dairy sector.
- by James Eyers and Luke Malpass
Virgin Australia, ABC top workplace wish-list in Randstad Awards
The romance and glamour of airline travel is clearly not dead, as Virgin Australia has won the gong as the place Australians would most like to get a new job.
- by Luke Malpass
Seven charts that explain why Australia's in a revenue hole
We are constantly being bombarded with reasons why the federal government has a revenue problem. But is it true, and if it is, what explains it?
- by Luke Malpass
Sydney house prices driven by Chinese 'bolthole' buyers
Foreign buyers continue to supercharge the Sydney housing market, accounting for more than 21 per cent of demand in NSW and 15 per cent-plus nationally
- by Luke Malpass
India's rise: the chart that will have China looking over its shoulder
Could this be the year the world's biggest democracy outpaces the world's biggest totalitarian state?
- by Luke Malpass
China's stock boom puts Australian housing in the shade
Australians, and the RBA, may be concerned about soaring property prices and a possible bubble, but compared to the appreciation on the Shanghai Composite Stock Exchange in China, our housing market looks tame.
- by Luke Malpass
'House and house-nots': The chart that should change how we think about inequality
The graph that should change how we think about inequality
- by Luke Malpass
NSW state election 2015: John Howard tells voters not to hand Luke Foley a 'fluke' victory
Senior conservative identities, including former prime minister John Howard, have signed a letter imploring NSW voters to back the Baird Liberal government and avoid Luke Foley's Labor "fluking a win" in a volatile election.
- by Luke Malpass
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