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Policy
Climate Committee seeks data, evidence for future carbon budgets
By Gavin Evans Sept. 23 (BusinessDesk) - The Interim Climate Change Committee is seeking additional evidence to broaden work it is doing to help prepare the first carbon budgets required under the country’s proposed zero-carbon legislation. Chair David Prentice says the com...
Policy
Stanley-Tallwood liquidator cuts deal over KiwiBuild development
By Victoria Young Sept. 23 (BusinessDesk) - The liquidator for Stanley Group and Tallwood Holdings has cut a deal with the developer of 23 KiwiBuild homes to get subbies paid out immediately. The arrangement comes as liquidator Damien Grant’s appointment will be challenged...
Policy
Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Govt will have to pay up for high-rise and other construction
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 23 (BusinessDesk) - If New Zealand's construction industry is to thrive, the bottom line is that clients, particularly government ones, are going to have to pay more for buildings. Steve Killeen, chief executive of Downer's New Zealand operations, spelle...
Finance
RBNZ needs more resources, not more powers: Bascand
By Jenny Ruth Sept. 23 (BusinessDesk) - The Reserve Bank needs more resources rather than new powers to better fulfill its role as prudential regulator of insurance companies, deputy governor Geoff Bascand says. Currently, the central bank has just seven or eight staff over...
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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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