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Change govt funding and treat sport as a business, MPs told
The government needs to change the way it funds sports and recreation and to treat the sector like a business to help organised sports get through the national lockdown which has wiped out revenue for the big names. The reliance of netball on broadcast rights, the hit to the NZ W...
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Infrastructure
Fuel glut leaves tankers parked at Marsden Point
Three crude oil tankers and a fuel tanker are anchored off the Whangarei harbour mouth as the country’s fuel sector slowly starts moving more volume as activity picks up through the reduced constraints of the covid-19 lockdown.The refinery at Marsden Point is operating at only ab...
Policy
BUDGET 2020: Next week's budget far from business as usual - Robertson
Covid-19 is a “1-in-100 year shock” and next week’s budget "is far from business as usual," Finance Minister Grant Robertson said. “The Budget this year is just one staging post in our fight against, and recovery from, covid-19,” he told the Wellington Chamber of Commerce in a...
Services
Vista offers cinemas free tech to help manage post-covid-19
Vista Group International is offering its cinema customers a technology package to help them reopen, including managing self-serve, contactless transactions and ticketing to achieve social distancing, free of charge through to at least Oct. 31. Chief executive Kimbal Riley tol...
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