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PR spin costs Solid Energy $48k
Well-connected lobbyists Saunders Unsworth worked with Solid Energy, Treasury and Cabinet Ministers to thwart questions about the company's problems.
Well-connected lobbyists Saunders Unsworth worked with Solid Energy, Treasury and Cabinet Ministers to thwart questions about the company's problems.
An independent review of events leading to Solid Energy's near-collapse has raised questions over Treasury's response to early warning signs of trouble.
Editorial: Naturally enough, the Government was keen to put the entire blame for what happened on "politicking" by Labour and the Greens.
The government kept a smaller operating deficit than forecast in the first nine months of the financial year, even as the cost of the Canterbury earthquakes grew.
The New Zealand government had a smaller operating deficit than expected in the first eight months of the financial year as it took in more income tax than it had forecast.
Prime Minister John Key has denied that the Solid Energy crisis and Telecom job cuts are a black mark against the Government's handling of the economy.
New Zealand labour costs rose in the final three months of 2012 as the gathering pace of Canterbury's reconstruction effort saw the building and construction sector underpin gains.
A month after releasing new budget forecasts, the New Zealand government is tracking above them.
The New Zealand government's operating deficit was wider than forecast in the first four months of the financial year.
A rise in household incomes that is greater than the average house price rise makes recent real estate market buoyancy unsurprising, says Bill English.
NZ's highest earners have paid less tax overall since 2001 tax changes that raised the top personal income tax rate.
John Key says estimates that the assets sales loyalty scheme could cost the taxpayer hundred of millions of dollars are "farcical".