Greens would lower debt faster than Labour
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 18 (BusinessDesk) - The Green Party would reduce net Crown debt more quickly than the Labour Party and would continue to run Budget surpluses over the next four years, if it were the government, according to a costed fiscal plan released by the party'...
CORRECT: Labour's plan to turbo-charge RNZ, boost public journalism and broadcast funding
(Recasts headline, intro, third paragraph from story filed Sept. 12, which incorrectly referred to a proposed doubling of funding for public broadcasting) By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 12 (BusinessDesk) - Labour is proposing to add $38 million a year to the $129 million already...
Labour to boost public broadcasting funding, turbo-charge RNZ
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 12 (BusinessDesk) - Labour is proposing to double current funding for New Zealand on Air to around $72 million a year, and to devote the lion's share of the additional $38 million a year to public interest journalism and programming, including local...
Ardern: legislate foreign investor ban before renegotiating Korean free trade deal
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 12 (BusinessDesk) - Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern is confident the government of South Korea will change its free-trade agreement with New Zealand to allow a ban on foreign buyers of existing homes, which a Labour-led government would pass into l...
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