Category : News
Author: Madison Reidy

If you're wanting to buy a home, you might need to lower your expectations about what you can afford after the Government gave the Reserve Bank the power to cap mortgages against your income.

That means the amount you're allowed to borrow could be cut.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2021/06/broker-warns-poor-will-get-poorer-if-government-introduces-debt-to-income-caps-to-stop-monster-mortgages.html
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Author: Hamish Cardwell

Wellington retailers in the central shopping corridor are scared a plan to ban cars from the area will cause businesses to close or abandon the area.

What is known as the Golden Mile - Lambton Quay, Manners and Willis Streets and Courtenay Place - will only be open to buses, cyclists and pedestrians.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/06/wellington-businesses-anxious-over-golden-mile-car-ban-plan.html
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Author: Hamish Cardwell

Wellington is moving ahead with plans to ban cars from four main "golden mile" streets - Courtenay Place, Lambton Quay, Manners and Willis Streets.

The streets will only be open to buses, cyclists and pedestrians. Side streets will also be closed off where they intersect with them.

Car parks would be removed and footpaths widened, and Midland Park on Lambton Quay would also be expanded.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/06/wellington-to-ban-cars-from-city-s-golden-mile-streets.html
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Author: Dr Bryce Edwards

Analysis - Is New Zealand navigating the China-West, politics-trade relationship in a craven way? Increasingly that seems to be the view from overseas, and especially Australia.

New Zealand's relationship with China has been in the spotlight while Scott Morrison has been meeting Jacinda Ardern in Queenstown

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/443769/australia-turns-up-heat-on-nz-s-relationship-with-china
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Author: Jamie Ensor

New Zealand has the least favourable view of the United States of any country a new survey shows.

US nonpartisan fact tank Pew Research Center has released the results of a new survey of 16 populations around the world, finding an overall uptick in ratings for the US, with high confidence in new President Joe Biden. The research saw 16,254 people surveyed across the countries between March 12 and May 26.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/06/new-zealand-has-least-favourable-view-of-us-of-any-country-in-new-survey.html
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Author: Sky News Australia

The Wuhan Institute of Virology kept live bats in cages, new footage from inside the facility has revealed, disproving denials from World Health Organisation investigators who claimed the suggestion was a “conspiracy”.

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Author: Dan Satherley

Chinese President Xi Jinping's push for a "loveable and respectable" image doesn't appear to be working, at least on Kiwis.

We're increasingly seeing the world's most populous country as a threat, a new survey has found, and fewer of us consider China a friend to New Zealand. 

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/06/kiwis-increasingly-view-china-as-a-threat-survey.html
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Author: Richard Wood
Australian warships will join the UK naval in military exercises to be held in the Asia Pacific in a show of force to China, reports say.
 
Two Royal Australian Navy frigates will join the British strike group, including the new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, in drills through the South China Sea within weeks, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. Prime Minister Scott Morrison discussed closer defence security ties in the region during his meeting with US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the G7 summit in England on the weekend.

Article: https://www.9news.com.au/national/china-tensions-australian-warships-to-join-uk-navy-in-exercises/b932bb3b-42e2-401f-a399-c95b3f0f85be
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