Politics
Finance
No legal shield for company directors who say climate change 'doesn't exist'
Company directors and fund managers who fail to manage investment risks associated with climate change are failing in their legal duties under the Companies Act, according to a legal opinion commissioned by new business lobby group The Aotearoa Circle.Based on the opinion from la...
Primary Sector
Water, methane reforms a $7b hit to economy by 2050: Dairy NZ
Implementing the government's freshwater clean-up reforms and cutting methane emissions will cost the economy about $7 billion a year by 2050, lobby group DairyNZ says.The government's Essential Freshwater package "could significantly harm New Zealand's dairy sector and the wider...
Policy
Free
Gavin Evans: OPINION: Smelter review a wake-up call on energy policy
The review of the Tiwai Point smelter should be a rude awakening for policymakers who seem to think New Zealand’s renewable energy bounty is going to give us a free pass in world markets.Politicians from all parties have talked up the prospects of new low-carbon export industries...
Primary Sector
Free
Fed Farmers dairy chair doesn't supply Fonterra but wants strong cooperative
Federated Farmers' submission on proposed changes to the law governing the dairy sector garnered extra clout among MPs when dairy chairman Chris Lewis outed himself as a non-Fonterra Cooperative Group supplier.National Party MP Amy Adams questioned whether Federated Farmers was j...
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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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