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2 months ago | 
lexology.com | Lloyd Kavanagh |Jeremy Muir |Claire Brabant |Zena Razoki |Ken Ng
The Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Amendment Bill (Bill) had its first reading in Parliament last week, to (at least at this stage) broad cross-party support, and was referred to the Justice Select Committee. This follows the relevant Cabinet Paper released last year, which we discussed at the time. Public submissions on the Bill are now being called, with a closing date of Friday, 28 March 2025.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
gisborneherald.co.nz | Zita Campbell |Jeremy Muir
Work has continued this week on sprucing up the city beaches ahead of Labour Weekend and there has also been clean-up work in other places, including under city bridges. “Sunny days are here and we’re working hard to clear large woody debris from our beaches and under our bridges,” a council spokeswoman said. “We’ve been tackling camping sites at Turihaua, Pouawa and have been cleaning up the remaining debris on Waikanae and Midway beaches.” “Tolaga Bay Beach north is next in line,” she said.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Jeremy Muir
Click here to listen to the audioIn this follow-up episode, Partner Jeremy Muir from MinterEllisonRuddWatts’ Financial Services team, reconnects with Shane Marsh, co-founder of Dosh, to discuss the recently released Commerce Commission market study report on personal banking services (Report). They explore its potential impacts on the banking industry and share insights into the future of digital banking in New Zealand.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
gisborneherald.co.nz | Matai O’Connor |Zita Campbell |Chris Taewa |Jeremy Muir
The Tairāwhiti iwi contingent arrived at Tūrangawaewae Marae this morning and joined with the rest of te iwi Māori to pay respects to Kīngi Tūheitia. Uri (descendants) of the four Tairāwhiti iwi — Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāi Tāmanuhiri and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki — have all travelled overnight to Ngāruawāhia to represent the region at the tangi. They are among the thousands who have been to Tūrangawaewae Marae since Kīngi Tūheitia’s untimely death.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
gisborneherald.co.nz | Jeremy Muir |Zita Campbell |Murray Robertson |Roger Handford
An eight-mission schedule took the Trust Tairāwhiti Eastland Rescue Helicopter to areas from Hicks Bay to Hawke’s Bay in the seven-day reporting period from Monday, August 26. Carrying out an inter-hospital transfer and responding to four medical events and three trauma injuries made up a programme that started last Monday at 12.15pm when the team transferred a patient in serious condition from Gisborne to Auckland Hospital.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Andrew Ryan |Simon Akozu |Lloyd Kavanagh |Jeremy Muir |Claire Brabant |Sue Wong
On 30 August 2024 Inland Revenue released a draft interpretation statement entitled “GST treatment of fees paid in relation to managed funds”. A key conclusion in that guidance is that fees payable to the manager of a managed fund for services supplied to investors are not subject to GST as they are consideration for exempt supplies of financial services. This is the opposite position to a legislative proposal in 2022 that would have made all fund manager services subject to GST at 15%.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
gisborneherald.co.nz | Zita Campbell |Murray Robertson |Jeremy Muir
Re: “Swerving side to side at Manutuke”, August 29. I already placed a request for service for this job weeks back. See below the reply from the contractor: Kia ora, Thank you for your Request for Service with regards to the potholes on Waingake Road. Please be advised that we have scheduled repair of these potholes in our August programme. Please also be advised that these timeframes may vary due to weather and emergency works which will always take priority.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
gisborneherald.co.nz | Zita Campbell |Murray Robertson |Jeremy Muir
If Chris Bishop truly wanted a bipartisan infrastructure plan, he would have started with the existing plan from Labour: Rautaki Hanganga o Aotearoa — New Zealand Infrastructure Strategy 2022-2052, released in May 2022. The National Party wouldn’t have cost us billions by cancelling almost every project that was under way and wasting all of the money spent on planning, scoping, engineers’ reports, purchase of land etc for new builds and projects.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
gisborneherald.co.nz | Zita Campbell |Murray Robertson |Jeremy Muir
Not a new topic but one which underlines the plight of Western society today is the ongoing and accelerating restrictions on freedoms of speech and thought. Balance and honesty are forbidden in today’s media landscape. Expressing the truth is frowned upon at best. At worst, careers are ruined. Perhaps the worst of this blight occurs at universities. Once hubs of freedom of thought and innovation, they are now producing indoctrinated students.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
gisborneherald.co.nz | Zita Campbell |Murray Robertson |Jeremy Muir
Intelligent readers will be accustomed to the regular misinformation posted by some leftie writers to the Gisborne Herald. Many letters are copied and pasted from fellow diehard lefties on Facebook. Some of these keyboard warriors make a living from posting drivel many times a day and have the audacity to ask followers to “donate” on a regular basis so they can live a charmed life in cyberspace.
