National took its pre-election tax calculator offline ahead of the budget on Thursday. Any unflattering comparisons with pre-election tax promises will be way harder with it erased from the web.
Don't think anyone will forget that $250 a fortnight 'back pocket boost' though.
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Week in Review:
Remediating Mt Ruapehu if things go pear-shaped could cost $87.5m – and new operators aren't on the hook for any of it. newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/14/do…
Concerns about the financial well-being of commercial fishermen saw crayfish permits issued in caulerpa controlled zones. MPI is reviewing the permits after the local Aotea/GBI paper broke the story
newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/15/go…
Wild difference between this graph supporting Wayne Brown's Port of Auckland plan and the same numbers plotted properly - supposedly meant to 'present the numerical values of the three different options rather than plot to scale on an x/y axis'. Bit misleading
On Newsroom this morning
newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/09/wa…
Not a business story, but I'm covering because National Park is probably the most half-assed and confusing town name in NZ
newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/03/na…
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National returned its second-largest donation due to links to a migrant hostel investigation that subsequently found no breaches. newsroom.co.nz/2024/05/03/na…
Seems like a good time to dig this article up with Todd McClay saying Canada (predictably) ain't playing ball on dairy trade under the CPTPP
newsroom.co.nz/2023/09/07/ca…
Figures on advertising spend in the New Zealand media market very telling about where the industry is at re TVNZ & Newshub.
Chart showing massive growth in Meta & Google advertising income from @jmjenningsnz's great piece on the Stuff deal over on @NewsroomNZ
Just before Easter Australia's only cash-in-transit company refused a $26m bailout to ensure the availability of physical money.
As I wrote this morning, it's selling its New Zealand business instead, leaving NZ with just one cash delivery outfit.
newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/17/au…
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The court found the 'clear benefits' of continuing to take sand from Pākiri didn't outweigh environmental concerns, reports Andrew Bevin newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/16/en…
Figures on the fishing vessel camera roll out show a 3.5x increase in report in Albatross incidents, 6.8x in dolphin incidents and a 46% increase in fish discarding.
The analysis is part of Fisheries Minister Shane Jones' review of the camera rollout.
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Say what you like about Reality Check Radio, it's an extremely good gag paying for a plane to tow this ad around and then putting out a video a few months later with your hosts standing in a field asking for donations because you've somehow run out of money
ALT A plane towing an ad reading 'REALITY CHECK RADIO - RIP WOKE MEDIA'
ALT Peter Williams asking for donations to stay on air
Interested to see how National handles this one, they're pro-business so presumably pro-repeal but also have proudly Christian MPs (&PM) that might support how we currently observe Easter
At the same time Foodstuffs is telling ComCom a merger would provide efficiencies through using just one supplier deal, its South Island co-op has decided to handle negotiations on a store-by-store basis. Over on @NewsroomNZ this morning. --$ newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/11/su…
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In other media news today:
Newsroom had success in the Court of Appeal in overturning a High Court injunction that forced us to remove a Melanie Reid video investigation on Oranga Tamariki's 'reverse uplift' of four kids. Three years ago.
Judges said we did not identify kids.