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PETER GRIFFIN: Are the Nats capable of an innovation-led covid recovery?
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Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Are the Nats capable of an innovation-led covid recovery?

Many business people who listened to Judith Collins’ first interviews in her role as leader of the Opposition yesterday will have breathed a sigh of relief.

Peter Griffin 15 Jul 2020
GAVIN EVANS: Southland jobs sacrificed to confused energy policy
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Gavin Evans: GAVIN EVANS: Southland jobs sacrificed to confused energy policy

The 2,600 jobs to be sacrificed in Southland next year are a high price to pay for confused energy policy and a multi-decade decline in this country’s economic ambitions. Despite the writing being on the wall for the Tiwai Point smelter since 2013, the plant – one of the world...

Gavin Evans 15 Jul 2020
Govt goes to the regions to prop up airport, back business park
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Govt goes to the regions to prop up airport, back business park

The government is providing a lifeline for Hawke’s Bay Airport and will inject additional funding to help establish a business park near Kaikohe. The government will loan Hawke’s Bay Airport $4.5 million on commercial terms, and the Napier city and Hastings district councils w...

Paul McBeth 13 Jul 2020
Transmission Gully talks drag on for another four weeks
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Transmission Gully talks drag on for another four weeks

Negotiations between the government and the bevy of contractors building the billion-dollar Transmission Gully highway north of Wellington will drag on for another four weeks.

Paul McBeth 13 Jul 2020