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OPINION: $333m in subsidies should have been issued as loans

If Government is confident there is going to be a return to taxpayers on the $333 million government it has handed out in Primary Growth Partnerships, why are they not issued as loans instead?

Jamie Ball
Sat, 10 May 2014
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If the government is confident there is going to be a return to taxpayers on the $333 million government it has handed out in Primary Growth Partnerships, why wasn't the money issued as loans instead?

That’s a question Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy was reluctant to answer recently – when

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Jamie Ball
Sat, 10 May 2014
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