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Gavin Evans: OPINION: Climate policy confusion not helping
The government’s climate policy confusion is writ large in the discussion papers ministers James Shaw and Megan Woods hurled at the public at 5pm last Friday before shutting their offices for Christmas.Shaw’s paper on the emissions trading scheme calls for urgent action; Woods’ p...
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Overseas forestry investment rules to be tested - Jones
Officials will look in the new year at whether recent changes to foreign investment rules for forestry need to be “tweaked” to deliver better land use outcomes, Forestry Minister Shane Jones says.Planting for expansion of the country’s forestry industry and as a carbon sink to he...
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Govt to insure bank deposits, set up a governance board
The government has decided to introduce insurance of retail bank deposits up to $50,000 per institution and says that will likely fully cover more than 90 percent of depositors.Finance Minister Grant Robertson said the deposit insurance scheme is one of a number of changes stemmi...
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Former Fonterra director joins Climate Change Commission
Former Fonterra director Nicola Shadbolt is among four new appointees to the Climate Change Commission. Shadbolt, chair of state-owned Plant & Food Research and a professor of farm and agribusiness at Massey University, spent nine years as a director of Fonterra. She was na...
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