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Jim Hopkins: It's time to talk about ways we could earn more

Sustainable mining solves quake bill and creates jobs and wealth to boot

Auckland housing market improves

Editorial: Auckland's projects must take back seat

PM backs away from election vow on family aid

Quake to cost insurers up to $16b

One of the world's biggest reinsurers estimated today that last week's Christchurch earthquake would cost insurers between $8.1 billion and $16b.

Working for families cuts targeted

Wealthy parents receiving money from Working for Families look set to lose the funding as the Govt looks to find financial relief for the Christchurch quake.

Christchurch earthquake: Owners may soon return to cordoned off businesses

The cordoned-off area of central Christchurch may be cut back within the next four days, says a local business leader.

Editorial: We're willing, so tax us for Christchurch

Overseas trade for January in balance

Under-valued mum under pressure

Govt to mount full-scale welfare reform

John Armstrong: Report pulls punches but quite tough enough in election year

Brian Rudman: National action needed to fill the glass

Fonterra's payout rise set to pump extra $770m

Fonterra increases milk payout - $10b coming to farmers

Fonterra is increasing its forecast payout for the current season by 60 cents per kilo of milksolids. This means an average payout of around $1 million to its farmers shareholders.

John Armstrong: Key feeling queasy

Massive welfare overhaul proposed

Mothers with young babies and sick and disabled people on benefits would be forced to look for work under a proposed overhaul of NZ's welfare system, which would see all benefits replaced by a 'jobseeker payment'.

Key: Work-testing when child three makes sense

Prime Minister John Key says he is open to work-testing beneficiaries when their youngest child turns three.