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Farmers face $1b bill to meet new freshwater requirements
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - Government proposals to radically improve the quality of New Zealand’s freshwater resources look likely to cost farmers at least $1 billion over 10 years. Environment and Agriculture ministers David Parker and Damien O’Connor rel...
Policy
Big hydro generators offered protection from new water regime
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 5 (BusinessDesk) - Government efforts to improve freshwater quality have run up against its 100 percent renewable electricity goal, requiring protection for the country’s largest hydro-electricity schemes from key elements of the proposed new National...
Policy
Opportunity for big end of town in KiwiBuild's 'build-to-rent' initiative
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 4 (BusinessDesk) - Large-scale institutional investors and infrastructure developers will be eligible to propose 'build-to-rent' developments under one of the new elements of the revamped KiwiBuild scheme, announced by Housing Minister Megan Woods tod...
Policy
Govt makes KiwiBuild loans easier, drops 100,000 homes target
By Pattrick Smellie Sept. 4 (BusinessDesk) - The government is dropping its target to build 100,000 affordable homes over a decade but will keep the name of its troubled flagship policy - KiwiBuild - while making it easier for people to finance their way into home ownership th...
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Pattrick Smellie
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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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