Auckland airport doubles runway inspections, admits slow response
Auckland International Airport says it responded too slowly to two recent incidents of runway damage that closed New Zealand's busiest airport for extended periods twice in two weeks.The company rushed out the findings of its review of the incidents on Jan. 24 and Feb. 6 after a...
Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: Time for some Prime Ministerial authority
Round and round went the Press Gallery’s questions to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this afternoon.They asked whether her Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters’s, actions in boasting of photographs showing journalists and their sources was ethical or appropriate.Other than to cri...
'Negative but temporary impact' from coronavirus, says Treasury
The coronavirus outbreak is provisionally forecast to knock between 0.2 percent and 0.3 percent off New Zealand's economic growth rate this year, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said after a briefing for the weekly Cabinet meeting on the potential impact of the illness that is disr...
ELECTION 2020: Bridges hammers trust, competence in economic pitch
The National Party is better placed to steer the New Zealand economy through an uncertain international environment than a Labour-led government, leader Simon Bridges said today in a speech billed as unveiling his party's economic policy approach.Its primary message: that Labour...
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