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Q&A: Greens suggest a surcharge on foreign buyers
California City :: CA :: USA | 7 days ago
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Q+A programme this morning, to try to basically turn down the tap a little bit to take some of the heat out of it. Labour Finance Spokesman David Parker said while the party agreed with the Greens that there should be a capital gains tax, a
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Support for Opposition power plan - poll
Wellington :: New Zealand | 11 days ago
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Almost 40 per cent of New Zealanders support the Opposition's controversial power policy, a new poll suggests. However, the results were close, with 34 per cent of respondents opposed to plans to create NZ Power, a centralised government agency to
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Power bosses' $1m-plus salaries revealed
Wellington :: New Zealand | 1 month ago
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Million dollar-plus salaries for the chief executives of power suppliers are soaring while consumers are being hit by rising prices. Contact, Mighty River Power, Genesis and Transpower - are paid more than $1 million a year. Figures for Meridian
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Team NZ spends up large on hospitality
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment does not know where the Government's $36 million funding for Team New Zealand is being spent...Last week the Star-Times uncovered an alarming lack of oversight in the multimillion-dollar public
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NZ-South America exports plummet
São Paulo :: Brazil | 3 months ago
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Prime Minister John Key's ten-day Latin America trip comes as exports to the region have plummeted by more than a quarter. Key has spent the week touring Mexico, Colombia and Chile with a 22-strong business delegation...Yesterday he was in Chile,
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Kiwis dumped for Chinese toys
Rotorua :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
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miniature toy kiwis made out of possum fur sold in Department of Conservation stores the length and breadth of the country. But the good-news story about environmentally friendly made-in-New Zealand products has died in the double trap of free trade
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Key defends $100m asset selldown cost
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
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The $26 million bill for the the state asset sales programme is the cost of doing what the Government wants, Prime Minister John Key says. New figures released by the Treasury show the Government spent more than $16m in preparations for asset
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Audrey Young: New Speaker tones down pomp but keeps ministers on their toes
Auckland :: New Zealand | 3 months ago
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Wednesday Feb 13, 2013 It didn't take long for David Carter to settle in to his job yesterday in his first question time as Speaker...The Prime Minister mangled his English ("dis-interrupted," "optionality"), Steven Joyce delivered long, boring
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Liam Dann: Bank policy battle is heating up
Shanghai :: China | 4 months ago
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Monday Feb 4, 2013 Reserve Bank reforms being pushed by Greens unlikely to be the silver bullet for house price bubble. Imagine how devastating it would be if you had just struggled to save a 10 per cent deposit for your first home only to be told
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John Armstrong: Labour needs to curb wagging tail
Auckland :: New Zealand | 6 months ago
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Saturday Dec 8, 2012 Tougher line likely in future on controlling Greens' ebullience...Along with other colleagues, the Labour leader is getting increasingly perturbed by the ever more brazen campaign by the Greens to try to displace Labour as the
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