The government will intervene to free up land for housing unless local governments, especially Auckland, plan to do so themselves, Prime Minister John Key said today in his state of the nation speech in Auckland. “We want to work co-operatively with local councils and I believe our goals in the end are the same,” said Key. “In particular we are …

By Pam Graham Multi-millionaire philanthropist Sir Owen Glenn was given the opportunity to bid for The New Zealand Herald last year but decided not to proceed. “I was approached at the beginning of last year and I did look at it as an investment but the numbers didn’t stack up,” Glenn told BusinessDesk. The former owner of OTS Logistics, who …

ANZ’s Morning Brief  highlights a PR assault is now required to reassure NZ’s trading partners that the chemical DCD poses no health risks. narrative essay “Dairy accounts for around one third of NZ’s exports,” says the ANZ brief. “It is somewhat alarming, therefore, that traces of dicyandiamide, or DCD, have been found in NZ milk and milk powder, as a …