Long-awaited grid cost-sharing paper due May 17

Long-awaited grid cost-sharing paper due May 17

By Pattrick Smellie April 12 (BusinessDesk) - A long-awaited recommendation on how the cost of the national electricity grid should be shared in future is due on May 17. The Electricity Authority says it will release its transmission pricing methodology paper and run an eig...

Pattrick Smellie 11 Apr 2016
Auckland Uni sells Tamaki campus to developer Tim Edney

Auckland Uni sells Tamaki campus to developer Tim Edney

By Pattrick Smellie April 11 (BusinessDesk) - The University of Auckland has taken a major step towards quitting its unsuccessful experiment to relocate much of its medical school and innovation activity to its Tamaki campus, selling the site to a company controlled by propert...

Pattrick Smellie 11 Apr 2016
Independent expert likely to probe NZ's foreign trust rules: PM

Independent expert likely to probe NZ's foreign trust rules: PM

By Pattrick Smellie April 11 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister John Key is signalling a change of heart on the government's insistence last week that New Zealand's foreign trust rules are sound, telling RNZ's Morning Report programme the Cabinet will consider a proposal for an i...

Pattrick Smellie 10 Apr 2016
Peters and Brash team up to attack Maori preferences in RMA reforms

Peters and Brash team up to attack Maori preferences in RMA reforms

By Pattrick Smellie April 7 (BusinessDesk) - One-time political rivals Winston Peters and Don Brash effectively tag-teamed at the opening hearings at Parliament of submissions on a government bill to reform the Resource Management Act which both believe has made too many conce...

Pattrick Smellie 07 Apr 2016