Billionaire Aussie miner moves businesses to NZ in 'quixotic' CER gambit
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 22 (BusinessDesk) - Billionaire Australian mining magnate and political maverick Clive Palmer has shifted his empire's legal incorporation to New Zealand in preparation for a possible bid to sue the West Australian government for A$45 billion for alleg...
Labour will lose in 2020 without more progress on housing affordability: Pavletich
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 21 (BusinessDesk) - The Labour-led government risks electoral defeat in 2020 unless it makes demonstrable progress on affordable housing this year, says the outspoken author of an annual survey of global housing affordability. Hugh Pavletich, the Ch...
Attack blogger 'Whale Oil' laid low by serious stroke
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 21 (BusinessDesk) - Right wing attack blogger Cameron Slater, aka Whale Oil, suffered two strokes in October which have left him partially paralysed on his right side, unable to concentrate and with speech and vision impairments, according to a report...
Housing Ministry head hints he acted against departed KiwiBuild head Stephen Barclay
By Pattrick Smellie Jan. 18 (BusinessDesk) - Ministry of Housing and Urban Development chief executive Andrew Crisp has given the strongest indication yet that departed KiwiBuild unit head Stephen Barclay was the subject rather than the initiator of an employment dispute that...
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