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ELECTION 2020: NZ First wants exploration acreage protected
New Zealand First wants to find a way to halt the slide in the country’s offshore exploration acreage. The party had backed the government’s 2018 ban on new offshore exploration and was not seeking to have new permits issued now, energy and resources spokesperson Fletcher Tabu...
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Latest jobless numbers offer brief respite
Further signs that a second wave of unemployment is subsiding, with 1,400 new people signing on for the Covid-19 Income Relief Payment in the week ended July 24.In normal times that number that would be cause for concern, but compared to late-June and early-July when an average o...
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Millionaire Aussie's advice to NZ: Let the rich pay for covid
New Zealand’s estimated almost $50 billion tax deficit could be paid by rich people keen to move here, multi-millionaire Australian investor Mark Carnegie says.Carnegie, who as of late last year is a resident in NZ, said there was a stark choice facing the country: raising taxes...
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Fed Farmers backs RMA overhaul but wants one law, not two
Federated Farmers backs the overhaul of the Resource Management Act but argues the legislation should remain within one statute to avoid which one trumps the other. "We’re struggling to see the advantages of having two new pieces of legislation. No-one has been able to lucidl...
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