The New Zealand’s government’s margin-of-error target to meet an operating surplus by 2015 has put spending on its biggest programmes under the gun, according to Finance Minister Bill English. The government plans to keep its spending programme in check as the deteriorating global economy puts its budget surplus at risk, singling out “long-term drivers of costs in areas such as …

adobe photoshop software download p> The New Zealand government is sticking to its 2015 target for getting its books back in black, but only just – with the Treasury forecasting an operating surplus before gains and losses (obegal) of just $66 million in the 2014/15 financial year, down from the $197 million buffer flagged in the May budget, according to …

The New Zealand Maori Council has been granted leave to appeal a High Court ruling dismissing its application for a review of Cabinet decisions relating to the sale of up to 49 percent of MightyRiverPower. In the Supreme Court today, Justices Sian Elias, John McGrath, William Young, Robert Chambers and Susan Glazebrook granted the council leave to appeal direct to …