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Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: A critical week for the lockdown
This will be a critical week for the government and for the covid-19 lockdown.Wednesday will mark the mid-point of the 28-day national confinement and, by then, if the current stable trends in infection rates continue, the clamour for relaxation will be intense.The important tren...
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Insolvency 'safe harbour' and business hibernation: what you need to know
Company directors will require the agreement of half their creditors by both number and the value of debts owed before they can invoke the six-month 'hibernation' process that Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced last Friday.The new regime will also require businesses to me...
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'Good start' on lockdown as half-way mark approaches
Stabilising levels of covid-19 infections suggest the country has made a "good start" in the national lockdown to try to top the virus's spread, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said today, talking for the first time about preparations for reopening the economy.“We need to get to ha...
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Court sends seabed mining bid back to EPA
Trans Tasman Resources’ bid to mine offshore iron sands has been referred back to the Environmental Protection Authority after the Court of Appeal found “multiple overlapping errors of law” in the approach of an earlier decision-making committee.The independent committee that gra...
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