Politics
Primary Sector
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...
Finance
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...
Primary Sector
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...
Policy
Maori Council backs short-term 5G spectrum allocation
The Maori Council has backed the government’s interim auction of 5G radio spectrum rights which sets aside an allocation for iwi ahead a major auction in 2022.Communications Minister Kris Faafoi today said Cabinet approved a short-term allocation of 3.5 gigahertz spectrum needed...
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