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2 weeks ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
One of New Zealand’s most iconic brands, and only domestic oat mill, says proposed new residue limits of glyphosate, better known as Roundup, will damage its business and increase costs. Harraways, which has been operating in Dunedin for 158 years, has a zero-tolerance policy for the herbicide. Already have an account?
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3 weeks ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
The Government says there is no link between a proposal for a hundredfold increase in the allowable residue of the potentially carcinogenic herbicide glyphosate in some food products and the GMO bill making its way through parliament. Consultation on the proposal is being advanced at the same time as the Gene Technology Bill, which would legalise the use of genetically modified crops in New Zealand. Already have an account?
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3 weeks ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
Fisheries Minister Shane Jones is considering a ban on fishing for spiny rock lobster on the east coast of Northland to allow the population to rebuild. This follows his three-year closure of the inner Hauraki Gulf rock lobster (crayfish) fishery, which started on April 1. Already have an account?
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
Rules making lending to community housing providers more expensive have come under the microscope of the sprawling Parliamentary inquiry into banking competition. Unlike state-owned public housing, which is provided by Kāinga Ora, community housing is made up of properties largely owned by charities and non profits and supported by 25-year government funding agreements. Already have an account?
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
A prospecting permit issued for 180 square kilometres of remote Northland bush has received an icy reception from locals, which Resources Minister Shane Jones chalks up to ‘Marxist hysteria’. Records show that on April 22, Stibnite Mountain Limited received a minerals prospecting permit stretching from the Bay of Islands in the north, down past Taupiri Bay and Whangaruru on Northland’s east coast. Already have an account?
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
Publishers of movies, games and other media will be able to determine age ratings for their own content, if a proposal being considered by Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden goes ahead. A few years ago media that was published in New Zealand had to be reviewed by the Classification Office, which as its name suggests, is responsible for classifying materials films, books, video games, and online content. Already have an account?
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
Analysis: Conservation Minister Tama Potaka is expected to announce Whakapapa Holdings' application to obtain Department of Conservation approval to operate in the Tongariro National Park this afternoon. When the Government finally hands over the rights to operate Whakapapa, it will have spent in excess of $50 million supporting the Ruapehu ski fields over seven years. Already have an account?
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
New Zealand no longer has a firm target for research and development investment, with the Government doing away with Labour’s longstanding, and increasingly unachievable, target. In 2018, the Government (a Labour-Greens-NZ First coalition) introduced a target of increasing R&D expenditure to 2 percent of gross domestic product over 10 years. Already have an account?
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
Changes to a shipping loophole in the United States that will cripple the largest market for fast fashion outfits such as Temu and Shein will then turn the heat up on New Zealand consumers, experts say. Though these companies operate globally, the United States is the single biggest market for such e-commerce retailers – US exports make up 28 percent of fast fashion retailer Shein’s sales. Already have an account?
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1 month ago | 
newsroom.co.nz | Andrew Bevin
Environmental and industry groups are celebrating the legalisation of commercial spearfishing in New Zealand, but say flawed assumptions have put a damper on the occasion. Pilot programmes targeting butterfish with the selective fishing method have been run for the better half of a decade, with Fisheries New Zealand finally enshrining it in law on April 10. Already have an account?
