{"id":2520,"date":"2023-01-26T05:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2023-01-26T05:57:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:57:16","slug":"there-to-ask-questions-hipkins-to-sit-down-with-business-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=2520","title":{"rendered":"There to ask questions’ – Hipkins to sit down with business leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Hipkins’ first big meetings as prime minister are a series of charm offensives with Auckland businesses, as he seeks to understand what their priorities and issues are.<\/p>\n

“I’ll be there to ask questions of them and to listen to them, in order to accelerate the important relationship that’s needed between business and government, in order to benefit all New Zealanders and to continue to grow our economy.”<\/p>\n

Auckland Business Chamber CEO – and former National party leader – Simon Bridges welcomed the news businesses were first cab off the rank for the new prime minister.<\/p>\n

“That in itself gives business some confidence. It’s a sense that this is where his priorities lie.<\/p>\n

“I think he’s off to a good start, inasmuch as what he’s saying is he’s going to come back to the bread and butter issues.”<\/p>\n

Bridges said those issues for Auckland businesses were around plans to curb inflation, getting more workers into the country, and concerns around law and order.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s incredibly refreshing to see from a new PM that he gets it, that he gets it’s businesses that make an economy and actually allow governments to do the things that we all want them to do like fund better health, education, and law and order.”<\/p>\n

During his\u00a0first post-cabinet press conference on Wednesday<\/a>, Hipkins brushed off criticism his first meetings were with business leaders, and not Labour’s traditional supporters like unions.<\/p>\n

“I’ll continue to meet with a large cross-section of people over the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n

“Of course, we have to recognise that I’ve put the economy front and centre of my priorities, and that is going to involve working closely with business.”<\/p>\n

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Chris Hipkins’ first big meetings as prime minister are a series of charm offensives with Auckland businesses, as he seeks to understand what their priorities and issues are. “I’ll be there to ask questions of them and to listen to them, in order to accelerate the important relationship that’s needed between business and government, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}