Don Brash's 2025 Taskforce Report is purely retro New Right. I can't see how we are going to catch up to Australia in per capita income terms with the policy mix that Brash and his taskforce allies are suggesting.

Don Brash's 2025 Task Force recommendation that the Government should quickly lower the minimum wage to the relative level it was in 1999 shows how out of touch National was in appointing Dr Brash to lead up the 2025 taskforce,

Labour's Research, Science and Technology spokesperson David Shearer has congratulated Rocket Lab Limited for its successful rocket launch into space this afternoon.

Maori Party MP for Waiariki Te Ururoa Flavell has welcomed the appointment of Frances Eivers as the eastern Bay of Plenty's newest family and district court judge.

The Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant General Jerry Mateparae, and the Chief of Air Force, Air Vice Marshal Graham Lintott, have been reappointed for a further year from 1 May 2010. Their current terms of office end on 30 April

The New Zealand Manufacturers and Exporters Association (NZMEA) is calling for the Government to seriously consider the recommendations from the 2025 Productivity Taskforce.

Justice Minister Simon Power has accepted the resignations of four members of the board of the Legal Services Agency as he moves to implement some of the recommendations of Dame Margaret Bazley's review into legal aid.Mr Power also said Cabinet

Difficulties the Australian Government faces in passing its Emissions Trading Scheme underline the folly of New Zealand forcing through its own legislation under urgency, says Labour Climate Change spokesperson Charles Chauvel.

Acting Christchurch Mayor Norm Withers launched the South Island Chapter of the India New Zealand Business Council last week with a call to seek improved bilateral opportunities.

Leadership is what is required to get New Zealanders to buy into a growth economy and higher real incomes for all, the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern) says.

John Key yesterday repeated his unwillingness to commit to attending the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen and signalled that New Zealand may pay $30 million per year into a fund to help developing countries cope with climate change.

The 2025 Taskforce's prescription for tertiary education assumes that New Zealand can reach the Taskforce's goal of economic parity with Australia by educating fewer people and lowering the quality of the public education that New Zealanders receive.

The Maori Party will continue to advocate for whanau Maori, particularly those on low-incomes, as the Government considers the 2025 Economic Taskforce report released today.

The 2025 Taskforce report aimed at increasing the country's productivity contains recommendations that could potentially assist universities in maximising their contribution to closing the income gap with Australia.

There is much to be applauded in the 2025 Taskforce Report released today but also some serious omissions according to the Wellington Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Revisiting the disastrous policies of the 80s and 90s will lead to increased inequality and environmental damage, and will not put New Zealand on the road to long-term economic prosperity, Green Party Co-Leader Russel Norman said today.

The Green Party today confirmed rumours that the Government is considering removing mining protection from 20 percent of Mount Aspiring National Park.

The Government will consider the 2025 Taskforce's recommendations and make practical decisions about them, Finance Minister Bill English says.

Two new laws giving police, courts and local authorities greater powers to crack down on illegal street racing come into force at midnight tonight.

Today's report by Don Brash's 2025 Task Force is a sham designed to cover up the fact that National has done nothing to help hard-working Kiwi families struggling to make ends meet now, says Labour Leader Phil Goff.