Politics
Finance
Venture capital funding gap is real - David Parker
Associate Finance Minister David Parker insists there's a funding gap in New Zealand to support new ventures, particularly technological ventures, and that his planned $300 million Venture Capital Fund will address that gap.The bill establishing the fund, with the money coming fr...
Policy
Give Climate Commission real powers - Norman
The soon-to-be-formed Climate Change Commission should be given the power to influence carbon prices by setting volumes for emission credit auctions, exemption rates for trade exposed industries and the level of exposure to global carbon markets, Greenpeace executive director Rus...
Primary Sector
Free
Fonterra rivals fear dairy giant will get leg up from law overhaul
Independent dairy processors fear Fonterra Cooperative Group will get an unfair advantage from proposed changes to the law governing the dairy sector and have warned MPs against rubber-stamping certain provisions.Parliament's primary production select committee is scheduled to re...
Primary Sector
Broader review powers eyed for Climate Change Commission
Risks around the government’s one billion trees programme appear to have prompted lawmakers to give the soon-to-be-formed Climate Change Commission greater power to recommend changes to the country’s long-term emissions targets and the carbon budgets to achieve them.Parliament’s...
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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