The Nation edited transcript: Lisa Owen interviews Steven Joyce Lisa Owen: So while National’s well ahead in the polls, it’s not been a year without its challenges. National’s campaign chief and, of course, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce joins me now. Good morning. Steven Joyce: Every year has its challenges, Lisa. All right. Well, briefly, to start off with, what do …

Mark Lacy and Jason Maywald, directors of OPI Pacific Finance, have been sentenced to 200 hours of community work and A$100,000 in reparations after pleading guilty to two Securities Act charges laid by the Financial Markets Authority. Last month, Lacy and Maywald pleaded guilty to charges relating to a registered prospectus and an advertisement distributed in 2007, which the FMA said …

By Jonathan Underhill Sept. 18 (BusinessDesk) – SkyCity Entertainment Group, New Zealand’s only listed casino company, said it has gained resource consent approval for the convention centre. The company gets some $458 million of gaming concessions as a result of agreeing to build the convention centre in a deal with the government. In May, SkyCity lifted the minimum it will invest in the development to $430 million …