Rod Drury taking bolt-hole plan to Parliament

Rod Drury taking bolt-hole plan to Parliament
Victoria Young
Rod Drury’s plan to allow foreign billionaires to build bolt-holes in New Zealand is one of several ideas he will present to Parliament's Epidemic Response Committee on Thursday. The Xero founder, who stepped down as chief executive of the ASX-listed company in 2018, has been testing support for three key initiatives to help New Zealand’s economic recovery as it deals with covid-19.Drury says his ideas are for the second wave of recovery, following what has to be done immediately.  One of them is loosening foreign inve...

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