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Covid 19 coronavirus: Was the $14b wage subsidy well-spent? 18 Dec, 2020 04:37 AM 13 minutes to read The Warehouse is among the companies criticised for not repaying the subsidy. Photo / Tania Whyte NZ Herald ANALYSIS: New Zealands $50 billion response to Covid-19 doled out millions for everything from apprenticeships to bird sanctuaries. But its centrepiece was the $14b wage subsidy which, in the dark days of April and May, underpinned the pay packets of more than half the ...

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:31 am, December 18th, 2020 - 54 comments Well I never. Can you remember how over the past five decades we kept being told that giving tax cuts to the most wealthy would make us all better off?  How the wealth would just trickle down? And remember how some lefty extremists said it was a load of crap and was not true but were attacked as being lefty extremists and engaging in the pol...

Thursday, 17 December, 2020 - 11:21 New Zealand’s model of marketing red meat (beef and lamb) is outdated, commodity driven, and far from optimised, according to inaugural University of Otago Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) graduate James Wilkes. James graduates from the DBA this Saturday with the first cohort of the new degree. Launched in 2015, the Otago DBA is designed for business professionals who are looking for a challenge. Students all continue to work full-time while st...

Premier House needs more renovation work, department tells PM 14 Dec, 2020 11:44 PM 4 minutes to read PM Jacinda Ardern shows off a unique bit of furniture at Premier House. Video / Jacinda Ardern PM Jacinda Ardern shows off a unique bit of furniture at Premier House. Video / Jacinda Ardern The Prime Ministers agency has warned Premier House is in dire need of some work, describing the heritage propertys interior as "dated and basic" - and revealing it would not have met the Governments own hea...

Murray Sherwin is leaving after almost a decade at the Productivity Commission. “I also want them to engage with a wide range of New Zealanders as they undertake their work”. The Productivity Commission was the brain child of the ACT Party and was formed as part of its confidence and supply agreement with John Key’s National Party in 2008. Murray Sherwin has been the chair since it was started in 2011. The Productivity Commission Act 2010 states that “the principal purpose of the Co...

New Zealand earthquake: 65 dead in Christchurch 13th Oct 2011 12:00am | By TNT Today A powerful earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand during lunchtime on Tuesday, killing 65 people and destroying hundreds of homes and office buildings. A powerful earthquake struck Christchurch, New Zealand during lunchtime on Tuesday, killing 65 people and destroying hundreds of homes and office buildings. Many more have been injured in the earthquake and rescuers are still trying t...

OIO too slow for Chinese investors - lawyer   by Demelza Leslie The Overseas Investment Office is causing some investors to shy away from New Zealand, the Auckland-based lawyer who runs Australasias largest South-East Asian-focused firm says.   Arthur Loo, who represents several Chinese clients buying property in New Zealand, said the consent process was too expensive, cumbersome and slow.   When a Chinese-owned company, Shanghai Pengxin, tried to buy a large central North Island farm for $8...

2020/12/14 01:24 FILE - In this April 27, 1994, file photo, people queue at a primary school to cast their votes at a polling station in Soweto, South Africa, as the c... FILE - In this April 27, 1994, file photo, people queue at a primary school to cast their votes at a polling station in Soweto, South Africa, as the country went to the polls in the countrys first all race elections. The way in which America formally chooses its president on Monday stands in stark ...

Almost 10 years ago I made a documentary called Inside Child Poverty. Some people (largely members of John Key’s government) got very angry with me. I was a left wing pinko journo making this stuff up in an election year. There was no such thing as “Child Poverty” and “even if there was,” said then MP and Minister Paula Bennett you couldn’t measure it. Well a group of academics at the invitation of the then Commissioner for Children proved you COULD measure it. And in the last Labou...

Kerre McIvor: Trevor Mallards defamation debacle stinks to high heaven 12 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 4 minutes to read Speaker of the House Trevor Mallard. Photo / Mark Mitchell OPINION: Earlier this year, Transparency International released its annual list of the countries with the least corrupt governments and agencies in the world. Its been doing this for several years, and for the past eight, New Zealand has jockeyed for first place with Denmark and Finland. Last year we were seco...