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Flexibility urged in emission protection phase-down
Policy

Flexibility urged in emission protection phase-down

The Climate Change Commission may need more flexibility to tweak the rate at which free allocations of emission credits to industrial users are phased down, its predecessor agency says.Eighty-four firms – ranging from New Zealand Steel and the Tiwai Point aluminium smelter down t...

Gavin Evans 27 Jan 2020
OPINION: A strange bedfellow and a tenuous lifeline at Ratana for Bridges
Opinion

Pattrick Smellie: OPINION: A strange bedfellow and a tenuous lifeline at Ratana for Bridges

National Party leader Simon Bridges was thrown an unlikely, admittedly tenuous, lifeline at today's annual political pilgrimage to the seat of the Ratana church, a traditional Labour Party bastion.That lifeline came in the form of an unexpected endorsement by the Green Party's Ja...

Pattrick Smellie 24 Jan 2020
Stronger-than-forecast CPI gives the RBNZ time
Policy

Stronger-than-forecast CPI gives the RBNZ time

Annual inflation is hovering just below the mid-point of the central bank’s target range, which economists say gives it plenty of time to watch and wait. The consumer price index increased 0.5 percent in the December quarter bringing the annual rate of inflation to 1.9 percent, S...

Rebecca Howard 24 Jan 2020
Labour moving on from BERL to cost election policies
Policy

Labour moving on from BERL to cost election policies

The Labour Party is again promising to cost its full policy programme, but will apparently not be using BERL, the Wellington economic agency that has performed that task for the party prior to other recent elections.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the party had yet to decide w...

Pattrick Smellie 23 Jan 2020