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From inflation to stagflation
Market analyst Jeffrey Halley joins the show to explain what stagnation is and why we don't need to start worrying about depression just yet, despite the economic outlook globally looking challenging… Audio
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Transforming the land is just the beginning
The Ngawha Innovation and Enterprise park is currently being built on 240 ha of land near Kaikohe. It is expected to create hundreds of jobs. Audio
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Taranaki rents up 18 percent
Taranaki is enjoying is one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country but is also having to deal with sky rocketing rents.
Like everywhere else in the country the rising cost of living is… Audio
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Defence force struggling to recruit in a tight job market
The New Zealand Defence Force is facing it's very own battle; trying to attract and keep people in the services Army, Air Force and the Navy. Royal New Zealand Air Force Flight Lieutenant Emma Raven… Audio
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The neurodiversity gap in our workplaces
Estimates suggest up to 50 percent of neurodiverse people are unemployed. Could unforgiving work environments be keeping skilled people out of the workforce? Audio
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Budgeting during a cost-of-living crisis
Audio 7 May 2022In today's Focus on Politics podcast, Political Editor Jane Patterson sits down with the Finance Minister Grant Robertson and National's Nicola Willis to preview this month's Budget. Audio
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Record low unemployment leaves most sectors crying out for workers
Audio 5 May 2022New Stats NZ's figures show the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.2 percent, in large part this is due to the closed borders and lack of flow of skilled migrants and workers. However, this is… Audio
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The latest on the Australia's election
Australia's Federal election campaign is in full swing before Aussies go to the polls on May 21st. Scott Morrision's foe Labour leader, Anthony Albanese has had a bumpy start to the campaign… Audio
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Australia: Labor leader off to a shaky start in election campaign
Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to talk about the Australian federal election campaign, which got off to a rough start for Labor leader Anthony Albanese when he couldn't state… Audio
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Long Covid: Sufferers warn of virus' long-term impacts
Long Covid sufferers and researchers are calling for urgent support and warning employers to start planning for the possibility that the virus could impact their workforce in ways they have not… Audio
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Labour shortage critical - Shamubeel Eaqub's analysis
The labour shortage is not just tight - it's critical - that's according to new data out today.
The report by Sense Partners for Business NZ shows in most parts of the country, including the entire… Video, Audio
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The Panel with Pattrick Smellie and Janet Wilson (Part 2)
Audio 23 Feb 2022Panellists Pattrick Smellie and Janet Wilson on unemployment insurance, the political ramifications of the Parliament protest, and a proposed Waikato bylaw that will impact dog owners. Audio
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Union, academic on government's unemployment insurance plans
The government is looking to introduce an unemployment insurance scheme that will offer ACC-like payments to people who lose their jobs because of redundancy or illness rather than just accidents.
It… Audio
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Concerns new income insurance plans could drive inequality
Workers would be paid up to 80 percent of their wage for up to seven months under new income insurance plans, which were designed alongside Business New Zealand, and the Council of Trade Unions.
The… Audio
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Income insurance scheme not a job tax - Business NZ boss
The business advocacy group that helped design the income insurance scheme is kicking National Party criticism of it to the kerb.
Business New Zealand boss Kirk Hope told Lisa Owen the scheme is… Video, Audio
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Social unemployment insurance to soften blow of job losses
Workers who lose their jobs could get 80 percent of their usual salary for up to seven months, under a proposed new government scheme.
The social unemployment insurance scheme has been designed in… Audio
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Social unemployment insurance scheme outlined
Workers who have been made redundant or who have to stop working for health reasons could receive 80 percent of their usual salary for up to seven months, under a proposed new government scheme. The… Audio
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RBNZ expected to raise interest rates to tackle economic issues
The Reserve Bank is expected to raise interest rates when it delivers its final monetary policy announcement for the year later today Decade high inflation, decade low unemployment, rising wage… Audio
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Why inflation is back in the economic headlines
An economic indicator that hasn't made a splash in the headlines for quite some time is back - inflation. Audio
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The great worker crunch: unemployment hits record low
Businesses across all sectors are seriously struggling to find staff and fill job vacancies, and latest unemployment statistics out yesterday paint the stark reality. The jobless rate dropped to 3.4%… Audio
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Covid-19: People against vaccination should respect others' decision to get it - Robertson
Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson says if people against vaccinations believe in choice they should respect peoples' decisions to get the jab.
Protests have appeared at vaccination centres in… Audio
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Top Stories for Thursday 4 November 2021
Audio 4 Nov 2021Top stories this morning... A Covid-19 patient has died while isolating at home - it's not yet clear if it was from the virus or another cause There's a growing number of anti-vax protests - we'll… Audio
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Long-awaited ministry for the disabled has a massive task
The invisible section of New Zealand society - disabled people - are finally getting their own ministry. It will have a massive task ahead of it. Audio
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The Panel with Lana Searle and Peter Elliot (Part 2)
Audio 3 Nov 2021Panellists Peter Elliott and Lana Searle discuss the unemployment rate, a global study on rugby concussions and Sesame Street. Audio
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Fall in unemployment rate could be good for higher wages
The unemployment rate has fallen further to 3-point-4 percent.
That's contributing to a tight labour market, which in theory, would mean in-demand workers can demand higher rates of pay.
And to an… Audio
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Staying afloat with government subsidies
The money thrown at businesses during our first lockdown last year has been refined and is now more targeted - but accountants warn the government can't save every struggling company. Audio
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How Covid-19 could be helping to daylight the hidden economy
New Zealand's second big Covid lockdown may be helping to shrink the country's hidden economy - the under-the-table work that no one pays tax on.
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MPs on the Dawn Raids
This week Parliament held a special debate to give MPs a chance to talk about the official apology for the Dawn Raids of the 1970s. The House has some moments from that debate. Audio
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The future - or demise - of the Marsden Pt oil refinery
Marsden Pt shareholders will vote today on a proposal to shut down New Zealand's only oil refinery, slashing hundreds of jobs. Audio
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Wages rise as building and construction industry booms
The building and construction industry is booming, wages are rising and companies are trying to poach talent off each other. It's a good indicator of New Zealand's low unemployment rate.
Official… Audio