News round-up

• notices and features
• 13 years ago
• Categories: Economy, foreshore and seabed, jobs, privatisation, supercity

• English says our public assets won’t get as high returns if sold as they have been recently
• English says our public assets haven’t been getting high enough returns and we’ll get more if we sell some
• Fran O’Sullivan against asset sales that undermine our economic sovereignty
• Do you support selling our assets for $10b? What if we only get $6b for the same stuff, as Patrick Smellie estimates (not online)
• Herald says it would have been simpler and cheaper for Hide to give Maori supercity council seats than the $3.4m ‘advisory board’ he created. Will he resign as promised?
• Another lawyers body calls CERRA anti-democratic and unnecessary
• Nats and Maori Party rush Foreshore Bill through select committee before Maori Party implodes
• ‘Recovery’ in retail spending just higher food and petrol prices hammering families
• 110 more jobs gone
• Duncan Garner asks ‘where’s the brighter future we were promised by Key?‘
• Key does some stunt to distract from his government’s performance and agenda (pending)