Business
Policy
BUDGET 2020: DHBs to get billion-dollar boost
The country’s 20 district health boards will get almost $1 billion more in annual funding as the government tries to rebuild capacity in the regional networks.Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Health Minister David Clark today announced an extra $3.92 billion for the DHBs over...
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Infrastructure
Z mothballs biodiesel plant, eyes 'shakeout' opportunity
Z Energy has stopped production at its Wiri biodiesel plant while it considers options to make the operation viable. The plant, designed to make 20 million litres of fuel from tallow annually, is being placed in “hibernation” while the firm looks at alternatives, including usi...
Law & Regulation
Free
Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: NZME threatens govt with Bauer Mark 2
Today’s move by NZME to try to bully the government into urgently legislating to allow its rejected merger with Stuff may just work. That‘s because NZME and Stuff’s owner, Australian Nine Entertainment, are threatening a far larger, more politically damaging version of the ear...
Services
NZME sticks to its guns in bid to buy Stuff for $1
NZME is pressing ahead with plans to fast-track a $1 deal to buy rival Stuff, having blindsided Nine Entertainment Co which thought the deal is off.The rivals have been trying to pool their newspaper empires together for the past four years, but were roundly shot down by the Comm...
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