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NZ needs to seize covid-free advantage - Seymour
New Zealand is an “island nation in a pandemic planet” but is not taking advantage of the opportunity that presents, ACT Party leader David Seymour says. The country’s relative isolation and its covid-free status has turned a geo-strategic weakness to a strength. Large parts o...
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Services
Millennium Copthorne’s fight for survival
Millennium Copthorne has been propped up by government support and revenue from its property portfolio but says the hotel industry is still in "survival mode". Government tax credits, the wage subsidy and managed isolation contracts have been keeping the hotel operator and pro...
Coronavirus
Stride maintains dividend despite potential $5.1m covid impact
Stride Property will maintain its dividend at 9.91 cents a share for the current financial year, despite financial impacts of covid-19 that it said could undermine profits by as much as $5.1 million this year. That impact could be partially offset, however, by activity-based i...
Policy
Some returnees to be charged $3,100 for managed isolation
The government will charge $3,100 per person for some returnees for managed isolation, Minister of Housing Megan Woods said. While more than 30,000 people have stayed at a managed isolation facility or quarantine since March and the government has committed $418 million for th...
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