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Economy
BUDGET 2020: Water and waste at top of infrastructure spending queue
Water projects and waste management are priorities for the government as it spends the next couple of weeks deciding which projects will get the green light.
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BUDGET 2020: State house building programme more than doubled
The Budget includes funding for 8,000 new state-owned houses, more than doubling the current programme to build 6,400 homes for both residential and transitional housing for homeless people. The house-building programme will be delivered buy state housing agency Kainga Ora, an...
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BUDGET 2020: Just $3b for ‘shovel-ready’ projects
The Budget’s promise of a wave of investment in new “shovel-ready” projects is far smaller than the bidders behind $136 billion of aspiring projects would have wished for.At $3 billion, the total set aside for projects that can be started in the next year is even smaller than the...
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Primary Sector
Unfair trade with China must be tackled - manufacturers
Efforts to rebuild a stronger export economy will be short-lived if the country doesn’t start addressing the cost of unfair trade practices by China, wood and steel processors say. A surge in export log prices – driven by demand from China – is part of a recurring issue that s...
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Oliver Lewis won the local government reporting category at the 2023 Voyager Media Awards. He is part of our investigations unit and also covers infrastructure, housing and employment issues. Formerly with Stuff/The Press, Oliver has also written for the Guardian and North & South.
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