Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield reported that new COVID case numbers had remained low on Sunday.

As new COVID cases stay low,New Zealand looks towards easing of restrictions

New Zealand’s daily COVID-19 numbers continue to provide good news as the nation continues to suppress a Delta outbreak.

  • Luke Malpass

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New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern listens to a question during a COVID-19 update after locking the country down last week when one case was recorded.

‘That’s not a lockdown. This is a lockdown’:Much hangs on Ardern’s COVID elimination strategy

The defining characteristics of Jacinda Ardern’s “go hard,go early” strategy has been the deployment of strict lockdowns that would make most Australians wince.

  • Luke Malpass
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern

'Saint Jacinda'Ardern's lockdown has not silenced her critics

Ardern may be very popular but she remains a fallible person dealing with real problems.

  • Luke Malpass andThomas Coughlan
Parahi worked as a cool room operator at dairy business Parmalat.

Banks maintain support for NZ farmers despite bad debts ticking up

New Zealand's finance minister Bill English says the country's banks – Australia's big four – are expecting a tick-up in bad loans as low milk prices pressure dairy sector.

  • James Eyers andLuke Malpass
Qantas .... dividend payments are finally in sight.

Virgin Australia,ABC top workplace wish-list in Randstad Awards

The romance and glamour of airline travel is clearly not dead,as Virgin Australia has won the gong as the place Australians would most like to get a new job.

  • Luke Malpass
Iron ore prices have slumped by more than half in the past year.

Seven charts that explain why Australia's in a revenue hole

We are constantly being bombarded with reasons why the federal government has a revenue problem. But is it true,and if it is,what explains it?

  • Luke Malpass
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Foreign investment in real estate is back on the table for debate.

Sydney house prices driven by Chinese'bolthole'buyers

Foreign buyers continue to supercharge the Sydney housing market,accounting for more than 21 per cent of demand in NSW and 15 per cent-plus nationally

  • Luke Malpass
On the grow:Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

India's rise:the chart that will have China looking over its shoulder

Could this be the year the world's biggest democracy outpaces the world's biggest totalitarian state?

  • Luke Malpass

China's stock boom puts Australian housing in the shade

Australians,and the RBA,may be concerned about soaring property prices and a possible bubble,but compared to the appreciation on the Shanghai Composite Stock Exchange in China,our housing market looks tame.

  • Luke Malpass
Inequality in Australia has risen to its highest level in half a century,Thomas Piketty says.

'House and house-nots':The chart that should change how we think about inequality

The graph that should change how we think about inequality

  • Luke Malpass