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Kerre Woodham speaks to NZ Herald Business Editor at Large, Liam Dann, to explain how the changes to foreign investor visas will grow our economy.
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The government, as you will have heard, is relaxing immigration settings to encourage migrants to invest in New Zealand businesses. While everyone was at the beach yesterday making the most of the golden weather the Prime Minister was suited and booted and spelling out the changes to the Active Investore Plus (AIP) visa category to the Auckland Business Chamber.
The way it works is that there will be two “simplified” investment cat...
Kerre Woodham speaks to NZ Herald Business Editor at Large, Liam Dann, to explain how the changes to foreign investor visas will grow our economy.
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The news that Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown is heading to China today on the country's first state visit, where he's expected to sign a comprehensive strategic partnership with China, has come as news to our Foreign Minister, news to our government, and indeed news to some of the Cook Island people.
The excellent Barbara Dreaver on 1News broke the story on Wednesday night. As she reported, the impending visit has ta...
Gregor Paul's story in this morning's Herald confirms what many suspected at the time: that TJ Perenara’s political statement before the haka, a rallying cry against the Treaty Principles Bill, had not been sanctioned by rugby officials. That many All Blacks, that many coaching staff, that many management, felt blindsided by the statement and that he spoke without the universal approval of his teammates, according to Gregor Paul’s ...
The Government’s shaking up social housing, yesterday announcing a plan to get Kāinga Ora back on track.
They're set to sell off high-priced homes in an effort to bring its books down, the plan including the sale of around 900 homes a year.
The money will then go to more low-cost, denser places with greater demand, as well as more single person dwellings as opposed to larger homes.
Kāinga Ora Board Chai...
We know times are tough. We know that we're in a period of rebuilding, we know that there are green shoots starting to come through. We're looking towards the end of 2025 as a time when things will turn around, when things will start to improve, and things will start to get better on a micro level in our own households, and on a macro level when it comes to the government.
But there are still sticky times ahead, and Treasury...
Possible corporate tax cuts could be on the way in this year's Budget.
Nicola Willis told Ryan Bridge yesterday that our corporate tax system isn't competitive enough with other countries, hinting at potential changes.
Christopher Luxon confirmed to Mike Hosking this morning that they're willing to make changes, and there's a lot of possible options.
Dentons Kensington Swan Tax Partner Bruce Bernacchi told Kerre W...
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It is the end of the month. There's only 12 of them in a year. Into the first month of the year and still there are schools that are not back yet. Could someone please explain to me how it is reasonable in this day and age to have such disparate and wide-ranging start dates for the school year?
I don't know about your particular school, or your area, but of the ones I know about, Auckland Grammar borders have been back for t...
New Zealand’s “rockstar economy” seems to have become washed up.
HSBC chief economist Paul Bloxham coined the term in 2014, and in an update last week confirmed that that’s far from the case at present.
He says that the economy had the largest decline in economic growth in the developed world last year, driven by interest rate increases in response to post-pandemic inflation.
Bloxham joined Kerre Woodham to dig in...
Some farmers are shearing back the costs with new sheep breeds.
Meant for meat production, ‘Nudies’ are a breed of sheep that don’t grow wool, allowing farmers to cut costs as there’s no need for shearing, dagging, or crutching.
Pierre Syben from Wairere Rams in Masterton told Kerre Woodham in his view, the industry will likely split between the people who stick with wool and those who move towards the Nudies.
He ...
You may have heard, the 80’s are making a comeback. Lookout for denim on denim, bubble skirts, and asset sales. David Seymour is stepping up his campaign to sell state assets and privatise public services.
In his State of the Nation speech last week, the ACT leader said we should be continually asking ourselves do we own the right stuff? NZ First, Labour and the Greens have all pinned their respective colours to the mast and...
Well, I might have been swanning about on holiday for an unseemly amount of time but the Government was back at work. You have already discussed, I have no doubt the PM's reshuffle of the cabinet, specifically Dr Reti losing Health to Simeon Brown in a bid to see change happening, change happening better, and there has been much chat about getting the country moving again.
In the last couple of days, economist Paul Bloxham, ...
There’s nothing wrong with backing yourself but, as a country, we have some pretty high and mighty ideas sometimes.
A good example is the previous Labour government’s approach that, when it comes to tourism, we should only try to get the people with truckloads of money to come here for a holiday. What they called the “higher value tourists”.
And I’m delighted that the Government is saying we need to get over our...
Do you know who’s to blame for the high school teacher shortage we’re hearing about today?
You are.
I am, as well. We’re both to blame.
Because, whether you’re a parent or not, we have done an absolutely brilliant job of putting people off wanting to become a teacher.
And it’s a weird mix of us doing too much of some stuff and too little of other stuff. And the outcome is 346 full-time vacancies unfilled just weeks out from the new...
There’s a belief we're still yet to reap the benefits of having inflation under control.
Latest Stats NZ figures show the inflation rate for the year to December was 2.2%, unchanged from September.
Inflation is well down on the once-in-a-generation high of 7.3% of just two and a half years ago.
The Herald's Liam Dann told John McDonald we're still yet to see many prices come down.
He says rents are still up ...
"We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer. I will, very simply, put America first."
And with that, Donald Trump —the 47th US president— probably sent a chill down the spines of truckloads of people around the world.
And a chill down the spines of some people within America too - because, some Americans, he won’t be putting first. Which I’ll get to.
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Boris Johnson is unapologetic about taking his country out of the European Union.
He's in New Zealand for a speaking event and to promote his book 'Unleashed'.
The former British Prime Minister says while there was panic about Brexit at the time, in the long term it's been good for the UK.
He told Kerre Woodham that th...
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