The Primary Production Select Committee sees its role as being the voice of rural New Zealand, says chair Mark Cameron.
The infrastructure levy introduced last year is a start but New Zealand is behind its contemporaries.
The veteran corporate raider gives up gong over child abuse material charges.
Moves to ‘cluster’ budget allocations would have come as part of Public Finance Act reform.
The government has $926m of Covid-19 response and recovery funds to spend.
Long-awaited two-way quarantine-free travel to commence between New Zealand and the Cook Islands.
PM says government will serve NZ’s interests and maintain its independent foreign policy.
Review covers impact net migration increases have on housing market, labour demand, productivity.
Public servants are not elected to make decisions but appointed to give ‘free and frank advice’.
The Climate Change Commission has had to draw on later budgets after ministerial intervention.