Category : Comment

CommentContractorHealth & Safety

Meth spike a real worksite risk

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Glenn Dobson, CEO of The Drug Detection Agency, writes that something has changed in our workplaces, and it’s not good. TDDA’s drug and alcohol screening...
CommentContractorPolitics

The case for a smaller government executive

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Based on a speech David Seymour gave to the Tauranga Business Chamber last month where he floated an idea about how we could transform government...
CommentLegalLegal Comment

Issuing incorrect producer statements

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Yet another consequence of wrongful producer statements is liability under section 40, which is explained by Brendan Cash (Partner) and Matt Murray (Law Graduate) in...
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Improving the approvals/consents process

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Christine Gordon, Senior Associate and Briana Lyons, Solicitor at Simpson Grierson look at legislative reforms aimed at streamlining the approvals/consents process, increasing competition in the...
CommentHistorical

Lest we forget

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Image: “Selection” of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, May/June 1944. Back on 26 January David Seymour spoke at an event hosted by...
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A message from the new NZTA chief

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Brett Gliddon, Chief Executive, NZ Transport Agency Last month, I officially started as the new Chief Executive of NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) after...
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Welcome to 2025

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Alan Pollard, CEO, Civil Contractors Association. By now, most people will have returned to work and will be planning for the year ahead. I hope...
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Challenging but equally inspiring

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Vanessa Browne, Interim Group General Manager Transport Services, NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, looks back on 2024 and forward to the rest of this year....
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Nothing happens without aggregate

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Let’s keep the momentum going says Wayne Scott, CEO of the Aggregate and Quarrying Association (AQA). I’ve commented more than once that ministerial policy announcements are...