Press Release – Business Council for Sustainable Development

The key to hundreds of thousands of home owners taking up $1800 Government grants to insulate and efficiently heat homes will be the extra new loans to help cover the whole cost of the work.
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Press Release – New Zealand Alliance Party

Alliance Economic Development spokesperson Quentin Findlay says Bill English’s 2009 Budget is a ‘Winnie the Pooh’ budget – “a budget of very little brain”.
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Press Release – Harcourts

Migration of New Zealand’s largest real estate group to new XT Mobile Network will enable Harcourts to improve business efficiency and productivity, and increase customer responsiveness
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Article – Businesswire

May 29 – Tower Ltd., the insurer and investment manager part-owned by Guinness Peat Group, lifted half-year profit by 32% on better earnings from its general insurance arm and an accounting gain on the valuation of life risk policy liabilities. The …
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Press Release – New Zealand Alliance Party

The Alliance Party has hammered today’s “barren budget.” Alliance Party co-leader Kay Murray says the National Party sold itself on election promises like tax cuts it knew it could never keep.
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Press Release – Magazine Publishers Association

New Zealand is still a country of magazine lovers: 92% of New Zealanders read magazines, according to the latest Nielsen National Readership Survey results. This amazing reach has remained constant for years and has not diminished despite the recent economic …
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Press Release – Wellington City Council

Wellington City Councillors will next week consider opening Manners Mall to buses and extending Cuba Mall down to Wakefield Street – a proposal that would improve bus services, create new public spaces and better pedestrian links with Civic Square. …
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Press Release – Statistics New Zealand

Building consent statistics for the month of April 2009 show the trend for the number of new housing units authorised, excluding apartment units, continues to be at a low level, Statistics New Zealand said today. The trend is currently at its lowest …
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Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party

Health Minister Tony Ryall has delivered a Budget with a pretty veneer, but a closer inspection of the detail reveals it will be a disaster for the long-term health of New Zealanders, Labour Health spokesperson Ruth Dyson says. “One hundred million …
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Press Release – Creative Trades

Creative thinking by an industry training organisation should help painters, masons, bricklayers and sign makers keep their industry skilled and moving forward despite tough economic times.
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Press Release – Vodafone

Twenty-year-old Lauren’s old Motorola phone is probably going in the recycling later today after she won free mobile services for life from Vodafone.
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Press Release – Life Pharmacy

Reporting Period 12 months to 31 March 2009 Previous Reporting Period 12 months to 31 March 2008 Amount (000s) Percentage change Revenue from ordinary activities $7,238 +21.3% Profit from ordinary activities after tax attributable to security holders …
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Press Release – BNZ Weekly

By the time anyone gets to read this week’s edition of the WO there will be literally thousands of pages of information about the 2009 Budget already on the internet. So there seems little point in doing anything other than running through some of …
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Column – Gordon Campbell

Judging by the Budget, the good news is that Finance Minister Bill English is not the beady eyed ‘lets take this theory and see if it works on people’ sort of ideologue that we saw in the 80s, early 90s. That’s about where the good bit ends. …
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Press Release – Democrats for Social Credit

“Public expenditure may be restricted in the future, but it is still to be financed by private debt” observed DSC Local Government Spokesman, Heather Marion Smith of Wanganui, commenting on National’s 2009 budget. Miss Smith noted that slowing …
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Speech – The Maori Party

The first seven words of the explanatory note to the Bill tell us all we need to know about Budget 2009. This day will be forever recognised as a response to a “difficult fiscal climate”.
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Press Release – Industrial Research Ltd

The New Zealand meat production industry is set to benefit from a multi-million dollar investment in automation technology research and development.
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Press Release – New Zealand Post

New Zealand Post’s corporate responsibility programme has earned international recognition and positioned the Company among the top three movers in the Australia/New Zealand Corporate Responsibility Index.
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Press Release – New Zealand Construction Industry Council

Pieter Burghout, Chief Executive of the Building Research Association of New Zealand (BRANZ) will act as Chair of the Construction Industry Council for three to six months while a review of the Council’s role and structure is completed and a new Chair can …
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Press Release – NZ Centre For Political Research

In 1996 the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Second Assessment Report was released, and I was listed as one of approximately 3000 “scientists” who agreed that there was a discernable human influence on climate. I was an invited …
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