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Budget 2020
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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...
Govt ditches 5G auction, opts for direct allocations
The government has given up on a planned auction of radio spectrum to get 5G up and running as soon as possible, and will instead offer allocations to Spark New Zealand, Two Degrees Mobile and wholesaler Dense Air. The government had planned to auction the early access 3.5 gig...
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Oliver Lewis
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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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