Parliament’s outgoing Speaker Lockwood Smith let the proverbial out of the bag by revealing in his valedictory speech this evening that Simon Tucker is NZ’s High Commissioner-designate to Canada. Tucker – a former MFAT official and Fonterra manager – was until recently a boss at DairyNZ. Smith acknowledged Tucker as one of a trio of talented former staffers who had …

work from home online Z Energy and Norske Skog, which operates a paper mill at Kawerau, are seeking majority government funding for a proposed $50 million demonstration plant to turn wood waste into transport fuels. Z chief executive Mike Bennetts announced the plan at a conference in Wellington, at the same time as revealing the 100 percent New Zealand-owned fuel …

BNZ has launched ‘YouMoney’ – an innovative new online banking system built from the ground up to capture a bigger share of the youth “digital natives” banking market. “Young people told us they want their personal banking to be easy and intuitive – so that’s what we’ve created,” says BNZ director of retail, Andy Symons. In contrast to the standard …