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New Zealand could lose talented creative industries workers to other countries if business don’t get greater support from central and local government, experts warn. Sam Ramlu, co-founder of digital technology company Method, told the Auckland’s Future Now conference on Friday that New Zealand was “where our heart is”, but with tax incentives being offered in many other countries, it was hard to keep talent here. Just last week the Australian government announced it would offer a 30 per cent refundable tax offset to gaming businesses that spend a minimum of $500,000 on qualifying Australian games.
“Many Asian countries are now on the aggressive hunt for that talent – our Covid-free status was an advantage, but that is disappearing,” Gluckman, the founder of the Liggins Institute and former chief science advisor to the prime minister, told several hundred conference goers.
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Koi Tū director Sir Peter Gluckman at the Auckland’s Future Now conference. He said successful global cities are significantly productive, but Auckland is well below London, which produces 23 per cent of the United Kingdom’s productivity from 13 per cent of its population. “In Auckland there are 70,000 students in universities, and perhaps 7,000 academics – I know of no other city in which the dislocation between city, business and universities is as obvious as in Auckland,” he said.
Schools that operate an enrolment scheme could offer excess places to out-of-zone students, with priority given to children who had been accepted into a special programme, then to the siblings of current students. Third and fourth priority was given to the children of former siblings and the children of former students. But one ministry proposal would scrap the parental priority, and elevate the children of board members and a school s employees to priority three. The changes were proposed after a 2019 investigation found “systemic inequities in educational outcomes in New Zealand”. The taskforce concluded that “improving equity of access to schooling” was important to reducing this.
Auckland Unlimited unfazed by South Island focus of new tourism spending, new cycle trail funding announced
6 May, 2021 11:00 PM
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More money is being allocated to cycle trails in the hard hit Queenstown area. Photo / Supplied
More money is being allocated to cycle trails in the hard hit Queenstown area. Photo / Supplied
Aviation, tourism and energy writer for the NZ Heraldgrant.bradley@nzherald.co.nz@gbradleynz
Hard-hit South Island tourist regions have scooped up the bulk of government spending in a rescue package, with the allocation yet to be determined to what was a key international gateway; Auckland.
Of 12 key points in a $200 million Tourism Communities Plan, half are focused on the most vulnerable South Island regions: Fiordland, South Westland, Queenstown Lakes, Mackenzie District and Kaikōura.