15 Sep 2017

The Week In Review for week ending Fri Sept 15 2017

From The Week In Review, 6:00 pm on 15 September 2017

A review of the week's news including... Labour makes a sudden and dramatic shift in its tax strategy, more in the series of Morning Report party leaders interviews featuring Winston Peters and James Shaw, a National MP seeks legal advice over a story which raises questions about his links with Chinese military and intelligence, a shock response to a very simple social experiment conducted by Checkpoint, can a single person live off the pension and afford rising rents?, butter is back in vogue with high demand being blamed for pushing prices to a record high, the 2021 America's Cup defence to be sailed in monohull yachts, thousands gather on the streets to celebrate the beginning of Te Wiki o te Reo Maori and young Maori graphic designers are dismissing criticism that they have gone too far by modernising historic Maori figures in contemporary art.

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