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Finance
Dairy Farms NZ's profit rises
The dairy farm investor owns seven farms, and leases one, on the South Island.
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Policy
Dr Jan Wright gets another title – dame
NZ's top environmental watchdog for a decade is honoured by the King.
A strange year in data: five defining charts
We started living with covid, moved to the right politically and got paid more – but used most of the increase to buy food.
Finance
Govt business loan guarantee scheme not a great success
Lenders criticised the scheme as having been written “by and for lawyers”, panning the rules as confusing and onerous.
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