Without relief, car importers would have had to pass on increased costs to consumers.
Governing Interest: But both groups agree the Employment Relations Authority should be better resourced.
It wants to make rules simpler and move from compliance to a risk-based approach.
In his first interview with NBR since he became PM, Hipkins acknowledges he won’t get many votes from the country’s boardrooms.
Act wants ministers to set key performance indicators for public service chief executives, to get better outcomes from government spending.
Party president Sylvia Wood says the election will be tight, after releasing National’s party list.
‘We have agreed to disagree.’
The Government could make things worse if it tried to do it on its own.
'Just mates backing a mate in a very Kiwi way': Stuart Nash.
Roads should be built back better, but not ‘gold-plated’.