Mentions of National Business Review in New Zealand Parliament debates
National Business Review has been mentioned in 46 parliamentary debates since November 2005.
General Debate 3 Aug 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER ... rate for income. Make a $50,000 profit on the sale of a rental property and you will not be taxed at all”. Even the National Business Review says “Capital gains and property taxes may be touchstone issues—because of the logic of taxing all ...
Estimates Debate - In Committee
In Committee 2 Aug 2011
Hon DAVID PARKER ... to get us out of the mess we’re in.” It is right. The Dominion Post has said something similar. The National Business Review has said that there is a need to have a tax on capital. The Manufacturers and Exporters Association ...
Taxation (Annual Rates and Budget Measures) Bill
In Committee 20 May 2011
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Herald? That is not a bad start. How about the “Annual Rates (Budget Lacks Job Creation Plan) Bill”, courtesy of the National Business Review, I believe? How about the “Annual Rates (Budget Hopes Rest on Shaky Foundations) Bill”, from the editorial in the New ...
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... Vision Bill”. Ouch! What about the “Economists Say Surplus Contingent on Recovery Bill”? That was a headline in the National Business Review, which casts certain aspersions in that direction.
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE It does hurt. When even the National Business Review starts kicking holes in a Budget big enough to drive a super-tanker through, one knows one has problems. I ask my ...
Taxation (Annual Rates, Trans-Tasman Savings Portability, KiwiSaver, and Remedial Matters) Bill
In Committee 25 Aug 2010
Hon ANNETTE KING ... facing, and it is not listening to what they are telling the Government. I think it is all written in this week’s National Business Review. There is a very interesting story in the National Business Review, which is headed “Jo...
Third Reading 25 Aug 2010
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... under Labour, and with a nice smiley man to help them do it. His name is “Captain Panic Pants”, according to the National Business Review. “Captain Panic Pants” is a man who has poll-driven his Government to a standstill. The National ...
Budget Debate 15 Jun 2010
CRAIG FOSS ... to minimise their PAYE obligations. In fact, 50 of the top 100 wealthiest people in New Zealand, according to the National Business Review’s list, were not even paying the highest marginal tax rate. That gave us a clue that the tax system ...
Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claims (Waikato River) Settlement Bill
In Committee 27 Apr 2010
Hon CHRISTOPHER FINLAYSON ... Christianity, or something like that, then it is acceptable, but references to this sort of thing represent, as the National Business Review foolishly said on Friday, some kind of challenge to the separation of Church and State. It is nothing ...
Securities Trustees and Statutory Supervisors Bill
First Reading 23 Mar 2010
CLARE CURRAN ... value they provide to the investing public …”. A brief excerpt from another article, also written in 2008, from the National Business Review in August, written by Sarah McDonald and Fiona Robertson, starts off by stating: “In 2004 National ...
Crown Retail Deposit Guarantee Scheme Bill
Third Reading 9 Sep 2009
CRAIG FOSS ... solution, which is to potentially increase the tax rates on portfolio investment entities. He was quoted in the National Business Review about that recently. Is that a solution or not? I do not know; I am quite happy for the member to clarify that. I am ...
Maori Affairs
Māori Development—Priorities 21 Jul 2009
Hon Dr PITA SHARPLES I have seen a report from the National Business Review of 10 July 2009 that reported on an impressive—
Prime Minister
Living Standards—Inequality 2 Aug 2011
Hon Phil Goff ... over the last year—that is, by well under half the rate of inflation—and the release a couple of days ago from the National Business Review, which shows that 150 people, the richest New Zealanders, increased their wealth by 20 percent, actually suggest to him ...
Job Summit—Creation of Jobs 24 Jun 2009
Hon JOHN KEY ... in retraining schemes could guarantee employment for New Zealand’s jobless. The conference was, as described by the National Business Review, “a total flop”. The only concrete thing to come out of Mr Goff’s all-day talkfest on unemployment was the creation of ...
Debate on Crown Entities, Public Organisations, and State Enterprises - In Committee
In Committee 26 May 2009
JEANETTE FITZSIMONS ... into. I actually learnt more about the institute from the media—and particularly from Tom Frewen’s article in the National Business Review—than I did from the select committee’s investigation. The article discloses that the National Institute of Water and ...
Local Government (Tamaki Makaurau Reorganisation) Bill
In Committee 16 May 2009
Hon DAVID CUNLIFFE ... admit that there are grounds for that special case, but why for Ports of Auckland? Why not Watercare Services? If the National Business Review and Trans Tasman are to be believed, the Minister in charge of this bill is going to ...
Social Assistance (Payment of New Zealand Superannuation and Veteran's Pension Overseas) Amendment Bill
First Reading 31 Mar 2009
SU’A WILLIAM SIO ... In fact, comments made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance were captured in newspaper headlines. The National Business Review on 27 February this year stated: “Stopping super payment inevitable”. Another quote from the Southland ...
Insolvency Amendment Bill 2009
First Reading 24 Mar 2009
KEVIN HAGUE ... well. The filtering of applicants has resulted in 35 percent of them being rejected on the latest figures. As the National Business Review quoted last week, the numbers have not in fact been going through the roof, as was initially projected ...
Urgent Debates - Accident Compensation Corporation—Removal of Chair of Board
Accident Compensation Corporation—Removal of Chair of Board 10 Mar 2009
Hon DAVID PARKER ... us look at how the Government was caught out. Nick Smith said to this House, and, following his discussions with the National Business Review, he was reported as saying, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) was “technically insolvent”. ...
Ministerial Statements - Accident Compensation—Ministerial Inquiry into Disclosure of Funding Shortfall in ACC Non-earners’ Account
Accident Compensation—Ministerial Inquiry into Disclosure of Funding Shortfall in ACC Non-earners’ Account 3 Mar 2009
Hon TARIANA TURIA Tēnā koe, Mr Deputy Speaker. The National Business Review called the shortfall in accident compensation funding “an A grade scandal,”. The scandal is not a new one; it is one ...
Taxation (Business Tax Measures) Bill
First Reading 10 Feb 2009
STUART NASH ... The Economist, the New Zealand Herald, the Dominion Post, and the National Business Review, and the range of commentators writing in our papers have a greater knowledge of what is actually ...
Energy (Fuels, Levies, and References) Biofuel Obligation Repeal Bill
In Committee 17 Dec 2008
JACINDA ARDERN ... liberty of sharing some of his views on the impact this bill will have on the biofuel industry. His statement to the National Business Review was: “We think that the growth of the biofuel industry will continue. A large number of biofuel ...
Electricity (Renewable Preference) Repeal Bill
First Reading 17 Dec 2008
RAHUI KATENE ... from the seven Mōkai hapū, who affiliate to both Tūwharetoa and Ngāti Raukawa—topped the Māori and iwi sector in the National Business Review’s monthly exciting company series with a rating of 93.1, which is the highest ever recorded. The Tuarō...
Financial Advisers Bill
Second Reading 24 Sep 2008
R DOUG WOOLERTON ... to care for the resources and collective good of their community—are not able to prosper. One could say, as the National Business Review has said recently, that there have been sanctions against murderers and robbers for centuries, but ...
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Amendment Bill (No 3)
In Committee 3 Sep 2008
CRAIG FOSS ...unting—yet $600 million was parked with the Reserve Bank and there was hardly a whisper, apart from two articles in the National Business Review. Finally, I would like to take issue with the changes to the Act in terms of the statement of ....
Appropriation (2008/09 Estimates) Bill
Third Reading 6 Aug 2008
DAIL JONES ... we describe the actions of people who are holding on to people’s funds as anything other than daylight robbery? The National Business Review, as far as I can see, is the only magazine that has tried to look into this issue to any great extent. ...
Budget Debate 28 May 2008
Dr JONATHAN COLEMAN ... sort of thing will absolutely sting him in the Otaki electorate. He may be one of the few Labour members who read the National Business Review. Two weeks ago the editorial in the National Business Review said that we have a ...
Hon PAREKURA HOROMIA ... are applauding that they have had a Labour Government. I say to Mr Roy that I notice—although I do not read the National Business Review, because half of it is you know what—68c has been added to the butterfat payment this week. The member ...
Urgent Debates - Hawke’s Bay District Health Board—Conflicts of Interest Report
Hawke’s Bay District Health Board—Conflicts of Interest Report 18 Mar 2008
Hon TARIANA TURIA ... in many ways we see that keeping business within the family has been so successful that it places families on the National Business Review rich list. Of the 187 entries in the 2004 list, 47 were, in fact, family affairs. There is the Goodman ...
Building Amendment Bill 2007
In Committee 20 Nov 2007
LINDSAY TISCH ...speech—were going to be absolutely horrendous, and that is exactly what has happened. An article on 16 July 2004 in the National Business Review stated “Government puts another nail into home improvement”.
International Finance Agreements Amendment Bill
Second Reading 11 Sep 2007
HONE HARAWIRA ... the New Zealand economy. That included the lifting of restrictions on the purchase of New Zealand land, even though a National Business Review poll in 1995 clearly showed that more than half of all Kiwis did not want land to be sold to foreigners and, in fact, ...
Internal Affairs
Government Data Accessibility—Launch of Website 26 Nov 2009
Hon NATHAN GUY There has been a great deal of positive feedback about this new website, in particular from the National Business Review and from people in the UK, USA, and Australia. I understand that Opposition MP Chris Hipkins is also a big fan. He has ...
Fire Service—Funding 4 Sep 2007
Sandra Goudie Does he agree with rudimentary costings published in the National Business Review newspaper of 27 July, which suggest levy cost increases of more than 2,100 percent for the Department of Corrections, ...
Hon CHRIS CARTER In the 5 years that I have been privileged to be a Minister, I have agreed with very little I have ever read in the National Business Review.
Regulatory Responsibility Bill
First Reading 27 Jun 2007
MARK BLUMSKY ... good chat about this, and a really good tidy-up. Congratulations, as well, by the way, because I was reading the National Business Review report of 8 June and I noted in it that Lianne Dalziel was pretty adamant that the bill was not going to come through, ...
General Debate 27 Jun 2007
Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS ... and not a matter for the police, but I say that a threat of this nature is serious. We also had the campaign by the National Business Review to denigrate Jane Diplock and others on the Securities Commission. Has anyone bothered to ask why this was so? Whose ...
Budget Debate 23 May 2007
Hon RUTH DYSON ... That is why the commentators have been so in praise of it, commentators like Paul McPadden and John Cantin from the National Business Review. Paul McPadden wrote: “As part of the good news package for business, this budget has come complete with tax credits ...
Budget Debate 22 May 2007
CHARLES CHAUVEL ... strengthen the capital markets and provide a much larger domestic pool of capital to finance company growth.” The National Business Review was also interesting on Friday, 18 May. There were a number of commentators: John Cantin, Paul McPadden, Brahma Sharma, ...
Airport Authorities (Sale to the Crown) Amendment Bill
First Reading 22 Nov 2006
NATHAN GUY ... think that that is absolutely ridiculous. The other key thing to realise concerns the article I recently saw in the National Business Review, dated 13 October. The article’s headline is “Airports get government permission to privatise”. Is that not surprising? ...
NATHAN GUY I seek leave to table the National Business Review of October 13 2006, which features the headline: “Airports get government permission to privatise”.
Research, Science and Technology
Research and Development—Private Sector Encouragement 23 May 2007
Hon STEVE MAHAREY ... and development elsewhere. Andy Hamilton of Icehouse said that it was a great thing the Government was doing. The National Business Review’s Paul McPadden said that the Government has clearly signalled it wants to boost New Zealand’s investment in research ...
Marsden Fund—Code of Ethics 12 Oct 2006
Dr Paul Hutchison ... Pacific she would order, or the report that the Minister said was ordered, as reported by Radio New Zealand and the National Business Review, be available so that the public can be assured that process, prioritisation, and quantum of funding is absolutely ...
KiwiSaver Bill
In Committee 29 Aug 2006
CHRIS AUCHINVOLE ... rejoicing in the Labour ranks and hierarchies—more regulations, a flagship bill. I have read a description from the National Business Review that states that the scheme is “a soft version of compulsory individual accounts”. There is a view that the scheme is ...
Historic Places Amendment Bill
In Committee 22 Jun 2006
TIM GROSER ... Some members will have read, as I did, a bitter critique of the Government’s approach to economic regulation in the National Business Review this week. It started with a very cutting point about the Government’s inability to free up business decisions. Here we ...
Finance
Overseas Investment Act Review—Treasury Comments on Screening 1 Jun 2010
Dr Russel Norman Is he aware that the National Business Review has reported that Andrew Petersen of Bell Gully is working on behalf of overseas investors attempting to buy Crafar ...
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises—Small-business Relief Package 10 Feb 2009
Hon David Cunliffe ... widely welcomed as long overdue but likely to be a drop in the bucket when the crunch comes; or the comment from the National Business Review describing it as “largely mundane”, and does the Minister now agree that these measures, although positive, largely ...
Telecommunications Changes—Business Reaction 10 May 2006
Hon Dr MICHAEL CULLEN ... positive response of business to the changes announced last week, including even a front page editorial from the National Business Review applauding the decision. About the only negative reaction I have seen is from the Business Roundtable, Federated ...
Debate on Budget Policy Statement 1 Mar 2006
SUE BRADFORD ... and individual firms. The main opposition we have encountered so far has been in the pages of last week’s National Business Review that paraded three sirens for neo-liberalism to attack the programme. Can I assure the and its doomsayers that the Buy ...
Energy
Project Aqua—Reports 21 Feb 2006
Hon TREVOR MALLARD ... replaced by a smaller-scale proposal, which is regarded as being very sensible by locals. I note in a report in the National Business Review that the National environment spokesperson, Nick Smith, wants to resurrect the older, rejected project.
Address in Reply 23 Nov 2005
Hon RUTH DYSON ... past his best, as is Don Brash, the current leader of the National Party. Don Brash is perhaps best described by the National Business Review, which is not a paper that I often quote from. But I was very attracted to its headline, which stated, in reference to ...
Revenue
Inland Revenue Department—Directories House, Christchurch 22 Nov 2005
Rodney Hide ... Department moved into temporary accommodation in Christchurch at a cost of $330 a square metre, as reported in the National Business Review, plus a $2 million fit-out, when it could have stayed in its present accommodation in Henderson House paying $130 a ...