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Covid management framework robust: Ardern
The graduated step down for Auckland into alert level 2 shows the framework is doing its job, says Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.Speaking at her daily briefing on the covid-19 pandemic, Ardern confirmed Auckland’s move out of level 3 restrictions and into what she described as le...
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Transmission deal needed to extend smelter closure - Rio
Tiwai Point smelter operator Rio Tinto wants a fixed-price transmission deal as part of any plan to extend the ramp-down of the operation there.
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Otago pumped hydro a fanciful, rainbow project
The government’s plan for a pumped hydro scheme in Central Otago is “fanciful” and a costly “rainbow” project that will be abandoned within two years when it proves unworkable, a pre-election panel on energy policy heard Wednesday. Opportunities Party leader Geoff Simmons said...
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ELECTION 2020: Nats promise return to Key-era labour laws, WorkSafe review
The National Party will bring back the industrial laws it introduced in the past decade and review WorkSafe as part of a plan to make life easier for small business owners. Rolling out an array of familiar policies, leader Judith Collins outlined her party’s small business pol...
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