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20 April 2023

1. Bank Profits
• Bank profits plateau: 'It may be that record bank profits are behind us.'
• Bank profits 'costing New Zealanders $2000 a year each'.
• Recession warning: 'Banks will find it increasingly difficult to be lenient'.
• Union calls for 5% levy on 'excess bank profits'.
• Bank profits: 'Comparing the banking industry to building companies is ridiculous'.
• We need a proper Commerce Commission inquiry into bank profits.
• ASB announces profit up 10%, says thousands of customers may face financial challenges.
• Record profits: Banks made $7 billion last year - a billion-dollar increase on 2021.
• National wants inquiry into bank profits - Greens say time for excess profits tax
2. Bluff Smelter
• The Government wanted to improve a law on major polluters. It might be worse.
• Rio Tinto farce underlines GHG hypocrisy.
• The one thing stopping NZAS and Meridian doing a deal on Tiwai.
• Sustainable aluminium demand stacked in Tiwai Point's favour.
3. Forestry Companies
• Forestry waste: Overseas Investment Office probes East Coast forestry companies.
• Max Rashbrooke: Forestry slash a perfect emblem of modern capitalism's failings.
4. Amazon & NZ
• AWS cloud computing centres to consume up to about 0.5% of NZ's power capacity.
• Amazon wanted to discuss 'opportunities for fine-tuning NZ's policy settings'.
5. Former Norwegian-Owned Paper Mill Destroyed Lake
• Environmental Protection Authority steps in over lake polluted by shuttered paper mill.
• The toxic paper mill sludge that consumed a lake.
6. Australian Mining Company
• Australian mining company agrees to notified consent ahead of second run at Barrytown mine.
• Residents of small coastal community gear up for another mine battle.
7. Foreign Buy Up In Auckland Suburbs.
8. Insurance Companies
9. Media & Private Equity Ownership
10. Tax Cheating US Land Owner Sent To Prison
11. UK Betting Transnational Takes Over TAB On 25 Year Lease
12. Richest 1%

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