Business

VICTORIA YOUNG: Why the law firms are handing back wage subsidies
Opinion

Victoria Young: VICTORIA YOUNG: Why the law firms are handing back wage subsidies

Major law firms who applied and then reversed decisions on government wage subsidies badly misread the public mood and will be remembered for it.

Victoria Young 10 May 2020
Future of Fonterra farmer council being reconsidered
Primary Sector

Future of Fonterra farmer council being reconsidered

Fonterra has asked its shareholders and sharemilkers to help determine the future of its 25-strong shareholders’ council – seven months after initiating a review of the council’s relevance and its cost. The dairy cooperative billed an initial farmer survey as the “first stage...

Brent Melville 09 May 2020
Trans-Tasman bubble by July?
Economy

Trans-Tasman bubble by July?

The Australian government has announced a path to near-normal life across the Ditch that could see the trans-Tasman travel bubble in operation as early as July.Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a three-phase approach to returning the Australian economy to as near to normal...

Pattrick Smellie 08 May 2020
No early chance for international education to resume - Robertson
Economy

No early chance for international education to resume - Robertson

Hopes of some education providers that foreign students could start arriving within weeks using existing quarantine facilities are looking increasingly unlikely.

Pattrick Smellie 08 May 2020