Displaying items by tag: CHRISTOPHER LUXON

OPINION: PM Chris Luxon is getting pinged lately for rolling out the old 'we're still a new government' line when challenged on a perceived lack of progress on various policy promises.

The primary sector is welcoming the appointment of Dr John Roche as the Prime Minister's new chief science advisor.

OPINION: People have criticised Christopher Luxon for the time he’s taken to appoint a new chief science advisor.

A highly experienced agricultural scientist with specialist knowledge of the dairy sector is the Prime Minister's new Chief Science Advisor.

AgriZeroNZ has entered a new partnership with Britain's national innovation agency, Innovate UK.

New Zealand's red meat sector is looking at exporting more than sheepmeat products to India when a comprehensive free trade agreement is secured between the two countries.

OPINION: President Donald Trump's bizarre hard line approach to the world of what was once 'rules-based trade' has got New Zealand government officials, politicians and exporters on tenterhooks.

OPINION: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon sometimes can't escape his own corporate instinct for evasion, and in what should have been a soft interview with ZB's Mike Hosking, Luxon unnecessarily "made a meal of it", to paraphrase Hosking.

OPINION: You must feel a bit sorry for poor old Christopher Luxon.

One of the most important events in the history of the primary sector that happened 143 years ago was celebrated in style at Parliament recently.