Mt Roskill – the by-election nobody wants / Cabinet rejuvenation / Maori Party selections / Another rate cut Nov / FTAs get harder and harder / A rough week for corporate NZ
RMA reform on thin ice / Labour’s party machine – better-oiled than expected / Would Nick Smith survive a Cabinet reshuffle? / Climate change initiative uniting Parliament / Another rate cut assuredImmigration helps deliver surplus – and options / Immigration helps deliver surplus – and options / Democrats may control the Senate
Mt Roskill by-election before Christmas? / RMA reform – consensus or a dangerous game? / Prod Com report on tertiary education / Tidying up ahead of 2017 / James Shaw takes finance portfolio / Dairy stabilising in positive territory, NZD outlook strengthens / Labour targets ‘middle NZ’, rather than ‘the centre’
Strong GDP growth but it may have peaked / And more good news: a low current account deficit / The Fed is back in the frame next week / Anti-dumping proposal raises hackles / Simon Bridges goes Uber / A local government CCO push may be softened / Constitutional protection for property rights? / Still no meat exports to Iran
Why Matt McCarten left as Andrew Little’s chief of staff / Inflation-targeting comes under pressure / Sound and fury from the Maori Party / Steaming on / Dunne falls into line / Education reform / RMA reform delayed again
National open to electoral deal in Ohariu as well as Epsom / Labour’s leadership becomes undisciplined / Media mergers under pressure / Graeme Wheeler’s charm offensive / Dairy recovery gathering pace / Wellington airport runway argument heats up again / HugoVision – normal transmission resumes Sept 2
HVxtra: Monetary Policy Statement / Wheeler plays it safe with a 25bps OCR cut – kiwi dollar immediately rises
The new Auckland Unitary Plan recommendations / Electricity – transmission pricing battles about to reignite / The Maori Party shows its hand – it’s anti-Labour / New thinking on the new western politics / Just how low could the OCR go? / Trade policy refresh – a hint of govt intervention / Next edition of Hugovision – Monday, August 22
Polls vs perception – stick with the average / Disentangling the China steel ‘threat’ story / Keep watching Turkey / Tuku Morgan rampant / Veep nominees support TPP? / Gunning for a lower dollar / Meat industry cost pressures spur MIA to join court action
Challenges to the current orthodoxy / Govt in deep trouble on housing / Labour at 100 / Brexit impacts / Cross-party thaw on climate change policy? / Competition law reform / Turnbull’s pyrrhic victory