Next steps for National Ticketing Solution

September 9, 2025

Source: New Zealand Transport Agency

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) says the findings of an independent review of the National Ticketing Solution (NTS) for public transport have supported a reset of the programme which will see the rollout of NTS in Christchurch from November this year, with a target to be operational throughout New Zealand by the end of 2027.

“NTS equipment will start to be installed on buses and ferries in Christchurch later this week as we prepare for the roll-out of contactless payments across the city from November,” says NZTA Chief Customer & Services Officer and NTS Sponsor Sarina Pratley.

“This is exciting news for Christchurch and for the broader NTS programme. By mid-November, bus and ferry passengers in Christchurch will be able to make fare payments using credit or debit cards.”

Mrs Pratley says the independent review commissioned by the NTS Governance Board in May 2025 has resulted in a range of recommendations across the programme that will help to ensure its successful delivery.

The report makes 10 primary recommendations and 32 sub-recommendations, including those relating to programme governance, leadership, delivery and decision making, as well as ensuring realistic resourcing commitments from all NTS partners*.

Mrs Pratley says the findings of the review are already being actioned. Three of the ten primary recommendations and 13 of the 32 sub-recommendations have been closed out, and the remainder are being urgently addressed.

“A new Programme Director has been appointed, the programme’s governance structure is being reviewed to strengthen decision-making, a restructure of the programme is underway to ensure it has the right resources to be successfully delivered, and additional resource has been committed to the NTS programme by the partners,” Mrs Pratley says.

The independent review has also highlighted that NZTA was overly ambitious with the original timeframes of delivering the NTS programme by the end of 2026.

“This finding is acknowledged,” Mrs Pratley says. “NTS is a complex programme to deliver. It is replacing four different ticketing systems that support five national and additional local concessions with one standardised national system.

“The challenge has been accommodating a broad range of localised requirements into one national technical solution. NZTA has used the review’s insights to get agreement for a more manageable incremental release plan for the technical solution. This has also enabled us to drive better alignment across Public Transport Authorities to support NTS.

“The NTS partners have welcomed the review’s findings and remain committed to the successful implementation of NTS, which will ultimately make it easier for everyone to hop on board and pay for public transport in New Zealand.”

NZTA will be publishing a redacted version of the independent review and its recommendations later this month, following consultation with our commercial partners. This will be available on our website: www.nzta.govt.nz(external link)

An updated regional implementation schedule for NTS is currently being developed, and will also be finalised later this month.

* The NTS public transport partners are: Auckland Transport, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Canterbury Regional Council, and a Regional Consortium – Northland Regional Council, Waikato Regional Council, Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Taranaki Regional Council, Gisborne District Council, Horizons Regional Council, Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, Nelson City Council, Otago Regional Council, and Invercargill City Council.

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Defence News – NZDF to lead multi-national engineering team in Cook Islands

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September 9, 2025

Source: New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF)

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) will lead a multi-national effort carrying out engineering work in the Cook Islands this month.

Exercise Tropic Twilight will involve more than 45 New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) personnel working together with military tradespeople from the Australian Defence Force, Republic of Fiji Military Forces, His Majesty’s Armed Forces of Tonga and the Vanuatu Mobile Force.

The exercise is held annually, and over the coming month will see NZDF’s 25 Expeditionary Support Squadron, 2 Engineer Regiment, with Australian and Pacific colleagues, deliver practical support to the island of Ma’uke, about 280km northeast of Rarotonga.

“We are pleased to make this important and practical contribution,” said Commander Joint Forces, Major General Rob Krushka.

“These engineers will deliver support such as solar farm maintenance, upgrades to Ma’uke School, maintenance of a water bore, water tank repairs, and water collection upgrades.”

The exercise is funded each year in the Southwest Pacific by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and is delivered by the NZDF.

“The NZDF stands ready to respond to defence and security, search and rescue, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief events, as required,” Major General Krushka said.

“Our highly skilled personnel and partners will deliver engineering tasks that I am sure will be appreciated by the community of Ma’uke.”

The exercise will be the first time one of the newly acquired Royal New Zealand Air Force C-130J-30 Hercules aircraft will have landed on the island of Ma’uke.

As part of Tropic Twilight, the contingent will return via the main island of Raratonga, where the soldiers, with local police, will help deliver a Blue Light course with Cook Island youth – giving them leadership, discipline and teamwork skills in a structured but supportive environment.

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Public Roads – Transformative public access map unveiled

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September 9, 2025

Source: Herenga ā Nuku – the Outdoor Access Commission

Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa, the Outdoor Access Commission, is releasing a major upgrade to its mapping of public access to the outdoors.

After two years of cutting-edge work, an example of the improvement is that we can now confidently identify 55,000 km1 of publicly accessible unformed legal roads in New Zealand and point to them on our interactive map.

Acting chief executive Phil Culling said the upgrade represents a significant milestone for Herenga ā Nuku, the country’s only mandated mapper of public access.

“This is the most comprehensive and robust digital representation of public access Aotearoa has ever had.”

Involving a vast amount of innovative work improving the quality of the data upon which the public access mapping is based, the upgrade represents a crucial tool for anyone who wants to get outdoors, Phil Culling said.

The new map is now available to the public and will sit in Herenga ā Nuku’s mapping menu beside the old version so that people can experiment, explore, and compare.

Herenga ā Nuku GIS manager Matt Grose, who led the upgrade, said his team will focus on public feedback before turning off the old version at end of the year.

“This latest upgrade is a paradigm shift in structure and reliability. We welcome all input as we continue toward completion,” Matt Grose said.

Unformed legal roads

One of the most exciting aspects of the new map is that it reveals the extent of unformed legal roads-or ‘paper roads.’

Previously, there was no clear difference in the mapping between a formed and unformed road, since their legal status in the cadastre is the same and the data we had didn’t allow for a distinction. Users had to cross-reference the public areas map with another data source, for example, an aerial imagery base map or a photo taken on the ground, to be able to distinguish a formed road from an unformed one. For example, to tell where an unformed road-section carried on over pasture or into bush, after the formed part of the same legal road ended. The upgrading of the data means we can now specify, in the data, which roads are likely to be unformed.

Also for the first time, we can calculate that these roads span 110,370 hectares-approximately 20 meters wide on average-and total 55,185 kilometres in length.

As a comparison, to travel 55,000km, you’d have to walk the length of New Zealand via the 3,000 km Te Araroa Trail no fewer than 18 times.

And in terms of area, if you set foot on every square metre of Tongariro National Park-it’s just under 80,000 ha-you’d still fall well short of the 110,370 ha of Aotearoa comprised of ‘paper roads’.

The total land occupied by all legal roads, both formed and unformed, is 362,926 hectares (181,463 km).

The region with the largest area in roads, formed and unformed, is Otago, with 42,835 ha. It also has the country’s most unformed legal roads, at 16,733 ha.

The region with the smallest area in all roads is Gisborne, at 9,431 ha; while the smallest amount of unformed legal roads belongs to Wellington, at 1,857 ha.

More numbers: North vs South

Total land area versus public access areas: The North Island has three-quarters (77%) of Aotearoa’s population, 43% of its land area, but less than a quarter (23%) of its publicly accessible outdoor areas.

Conservation land, unformed legal roads and tangata whenua land: The South Island has 81% of Aotearoa’s publicly accessible conservation land, 61% of its unformed legal roads and only 4% of its tangata whenua land.

Public access mapping: a timeline

The background of this upgrade goes as far back as 2001, when Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) launched Landonline as the country’s authoritative source of cadastral survey and title information. While it was a leap forward, it was not fully digital, and it had no mandate to record or map public access areas.

In 2008, the Walking Access Act established the Walking Access Commission (which later became Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa, the Outdoor Access Commission). The Act legally required the Commission to compile, hold and publish maps and information about land over which members of the public have walking access.

In 2009 this task became easier when LINZ made digital lodgement of survey and title transactions mandatory. That is, the records of these transactions could no longer be consigned to paper files stored in the back rooms of offices scattered around the country, but instead, they had to be accessible online to anyone, anywhere.

As a result, in 2010, the Walking Access Commission developed and launched the first version of its online mapping system, Walking Access Mapping System (WAMS). On top of LINZ’s survey and title records and a base layer composed of topographic or aerial imagery, the Commission could now add a layer showing public access areas.

Between 2010 and 2018, WAMS underwent various phases of improvement as the nation’s vast swathes of historic and current land information records were gradually digitised, translated, interpreted and otherwise captured by the new technology.

In 2018, it became clear that a more systematic approach was needed to fill gaps arising from the organic way the country’s land information was digitised, the limited public resources available, and the complexities of cross-government interaction.

As a result, also in 2018, George Williamson, one of the country’s most senior surveyors and land advisors, was commissioned to write an independent report on the state of the Commission’s public access data and how to make it more complete.

This prompted the Commission to rebuild its public access areas dataset from scratch.

In 2022, the Commission was renamed Herenga ā Nuku Aotearoa, the Outdoor Access Commission, reflecting that outdoor access also includes cyclists, horse riders and others. From that point, its mapping system, WAMS, kept its name in acronym form, but it no longer refers only to access on foot.

In 2023, to speed up and improve the rebuild of the public access areas dataset, the Commission launched a two-year Data Improvement Programme.

In early 2025, that programme developed a new data pipeline – an automated, repeatable process for identifying public access.

All these developments have now culminated in this latest upgrade: Aotearoa’s most complete mapping of public access areas is now open for the public to explore.

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Transport Sector – Tasman speed reductions redundant and costly – Transporting New Zealand

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September 9, 2025

Source: Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand

Road freight association Transporting New Zealand says it is disappointed with Tasman District Council’s decision to proceed with widespread speed limit reductions across the district, saying that they simply don’t stack up.

“On many of the roads where speed reductions have been approved, the mean operating speed is already well below the new limit, which makes the cost of implementing the changes and the return on investment highly questionable,” says Membership Manager Lindsay Calvi-Freeman.

Examples include:

1. Goodall Road: will drop from 100 to 60 km/h, yet vehicles only average 36 km/h.

2. Riwaka-Kaiteriteri Road: will drop from 80 to 60 km/h, but the mean operating speed is already just 46 km/h.

3. Sandy Bay-Marahau Road: will drop from 80 to 60 km/h, but with a mean operating speed of 56 km/h, it’s already under the new limit.

“With safety gains ranging from nil to marginal, this is another example of symbolic changes being prioritised over genuine improvements,” Calvi-Freeman says.

“Crash data shows these reductions will deliver virtually no safety improvements, yet the council seems happy to spend ratepayer money regardless.”

Calvi-Freeman says the council had supported some of Transporting New Zealand’s feedback, including opting to use advisory signs on some roads, instead of needlessly signposting blanket speed reductions.

“However, the need for advisory signs on most of those roads is still highly questionable. Instead of prioritising investment on real roading improvements, the council is spending money on things that by its own admission will make little if any difference,” says Calvi-Freeman.

About Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand

Ia Ara Aotearoa Transporting New Zealand is the peak national membership association representing the road freight transport industry. Our members operate urban, rural and inter-regional commercial freight transport services throughout the country.

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First Responders – Fire and Emergency New Zealand welcomes four specialists home from Canada

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September 9, 2025

Source: Fire and Emergency New Zealand

Fire and Emergency New Zealand has welcomed its third contingent of firefighters home from Canada, where they have been supporting efforts to combat significant wildfires across Alberta.

The four-person specialist team departed New Zealand on 5 August and arrived home today (9 September). They have been undertaking specialist roles as taskforce leaders and helicopter coordinators.

Assistant National Commander Nick Pyatt says the team has worked in remote and challenging conditions across Alberta for the past five weeks.

“Our people have shown incredible resilience and professionalism throughout this deployment as they worked alongside crews from Canada and several other countries. We’re proud of the way they’ve represented Fire and Emergency and New Zealand,” he says.

New Zealand firefighters are still deployed in Manitoba, Canada. A further team of four specialists are working as part of an eight-person Incident Management Team comprising experienced personnel from New Zealand and Australia. An additional fifth specialist is fulfilling the International Liaison Officer role.

“These deployments help build our capability to manage large wildfires at home, and we are more than happy to provide mutual assistance to our international counterparts,” Nick Pyatt says.

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Update 4 – Critical incident, Waitomo

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September 9, 2025

Source: New Zealand Police

Police are today releasing photos of one of the campsites where Tom Phillips and his children were hiding prior to Monday morning’s shooting at Waitomo.

The makeshift camp was located by specialist Police, acting on information from one of the children, about 2 kilometres from the scene where Phillips died after he shot and critically injured a Police officer.

A large-scale investigation is continuing into the shooting, which happened about 3.25am on Monday on Te Anga Road.

Police Commissioner Richard Chambers and Minister of Police Mark Mitchell today visited the injured officer, Officer A, in hospital.

“I was pleased that I could meet him and his family today and offer my encouragement and support to them. While the officer has a long road to recovery, we will be there to support him and his whānau at every step.

“He is a dedicated and caring constable and represents the best of what it means to be a rural Police officer.

“I’m proud of him, and the officers who arrived on the scene seconds later and dealt to the threat.”

Commissioner Chambers also met with Acting Waikato District Commander Inspector Andrea McBeth and staff this morning.

“Their professionalism in dealing with a colleague being injured and working through an incredibly complex investigation is admirable and they will receive any additional support that is needed.”

Scene examinations

A number of areas in Western Waikato remain under scene guard as Police process evidence following Monday morning’s events.

The camp area in Waitomo and the scene of the shooting remain active crime scenes, with forensic staff on site today to gather evidence.

Three firearms, including the weapon used by Phillips, have been recovered from the scene of the shooting. Several firearms have been located from the area where Phillips was camping, and further details will be shared when they become available.

Acting Deputy Commissioner Jill Rogers said a number of investigations are under way into the incident, including an Independent Police Conduct Authority investigation, Coronial enquiries, and a Critical Incident Review.

“The body of Tom Phillips was removed from the scene late yesterday and there will be a post mortem tomorrow, after which his body will be released to his family.

“Investigation staff are going over the areas where the family had been staying, and have been speaking with farmers, locals, and workers in the area. That work is to help us build an accurate picture of the movements of Tom Phillips and the children.”

Wrap-around support

Acting Deputy Commissioner Rogers said the children were reunited late yesterday and are now in the care of Oranga Tamariki.

“Our staff described the children as being engaged and they readily spoke with our staff, who provided them with snacks and drinks while they waited to be brought out of the camp site.

“While they are now in the care of Oranga Tamariki, we will continue to work closely with the children, taking the time and sensitivity that is needed after the ordeal they have been through.”

Extra Police staff have been deployed to the Marokopa and King Country areas and will remain in the district over the coming days.

ENDS

Issued by the Police Media Centre

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Update: Youth charged with murder after the death of Kaea Karauria

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September 9, 2025

Source: New Zealand Police

Media are asked to remove the additional charges listed in our original media release on the youth charged with the murder of Kaea Karauria, as ordered by the Judge in Napier Youth Court today.

This is due to the charges being a separate matter to the murder charge, and these charges will go through separate Court proceedings.

We ask media to please update any stories to reflect this.

Thank you for your understanding.

ENDS

Issued by Police Media Centre

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Planner At Large Founder Announces Release Of Début Book Swimming Downstream

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September 9, 2025

Source: Media Outreach

Award-winning consultant Judd Labarthe launches a much-anticipated book, Swimming Downstream, challenging conventional marketing wisdom with practical, evidence-based guidance

SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 September 2025 – Judd Labarthe, the US-born founder of Singapore-based consultancy Planner at Large LLP, today announced the release of his début book, Swimming Downstream: How To Stop Struggling & Start Winning With Marketing That Actually Works, published by Marshall Cavendish Business.

In the author’s view, the marketing field is plagued by intuitive yet fundamentally flawed assumptions that lead even seasoned, well-meaning businesspeople to repeat the same avoidable mistakes.

“The good news”, said Labarthe, “is that successful marketing is more accessible than most businesspeople realize. Thanks to the work of some smart, often contrarian thinkers, we now know much more about what to commit to and what to avoid. It’s thinking that’s starting to catch on among more advanced marketers, but it’s not much talked about, let alone applied, by the people for whom the stakes are highest: brand and business owners themselves.”

Swimming Downstream aims to change that.

The book is built around a clear idea: most companies are ‘swimming upstream’, wasting resources on popular but misguided tactics that may feel right but don’t actually help them compete. Instead, Labarthe offers readers a more appealing alternative: to ‘swim downstream,’ by recognizing, understanding and aligning with the powerful currents of evidence-based marketing.

“The title metaphor is deliberate,” Labarthe explained. “We’ve been sold this image of success as a noble battle where we bravely fight the current to work our way upstream. But in marketing, if you stop chasing trends and start understanding the currents that actually drive growth, you can swim with these currents instead. And that means building success with less effort – and a lot less waste.”

Drawing from marketing science, real-life case studies, and Labarthe’s decades of experience, Swimming Downstream provides a success framework that’s immediately actionable – in part because it’s built around the core questions all businesspeople face sooner or later.

Specifically, brand and business owners will learn how to break free from convention, to recognize and harness marketing’s real success drivers, and to avoid making the common and costly mistakes that limit competitiveness and growth. Marketing professionals will develop a convincing arsenal of arguments for doing more of what will help, and against doing what won’t but is often baked into company culture as “best practice.” And marketing students and others new to the field will gain a plain-language set of evidence- and experience-based alternatives to conventional wisdom, including what’s commonly taught in school.

The book is also a gateway to the thinking that drives Labarthe’s consultancy, Planner At Large LLP, whose clients benefit from an approach to growing their business that focuses on building fame and distinctiveness. Asked about this approach, Labarthe said “we strive to be more creative than the typical management consultant, and more commercially savvy than the typical brand consultant. And the proof is in the pudding: over my career I’ve helped my clients win almost 80 awards for marketing effectiveness.”

Labarthe concluded: “Marketing is much more than logos and package designs and social posts and clever stunts; it’s how a business competes. You can’t tack it on at the end of the process of becoming more competitive; marketing is that process.”

Swimming Downstream is a refreshing and necessary dive into what successful marketing can and should be.

Availability

Swimming Downstream is available now on Amazon.com, Amazon.sg, Google Play, and in major bookstores including Kinokuniya and Popular, and through the author directly.

Early Praise for Swimming Downstream:

Swimming Downstream takes a thoughtful, analytical, and well researched approach to helping business leaders re-think their marketing with a focus on long-term success. Labarthe reminds us, rightly in my view, that marketing and brand are the responsibility of the top of the house, not a department. His anecdotes are instructive, and the chapter end summaries provide a shorthand “to-do list” for the attention-challenged. Swimming Downstream is a useful, understandable, and practical guide to fixing marketing, so it can make the cash register ring.
Stephen Ban, former Fortune 500 CMO

Swimming Downstream crushes the conventional wisdom dished out by marketing veterans and self-styled “experts”, and it does so with a deft combination of rigor, creativity and a fun, conversational style I really loved. Better still, Labarthe doesn’t simply poke holes in traditional marketing tropes; he provides solid, practical solutions illustrated with insightful case histories based on his experience as a marketing consultant.
Marty Horn, former SVP, DDB Worldwide and author of the forthcoming The Marketing Researcher’s Edge

As a nonfiction book editor who has co-written four books on marketing and sales, it’s safe to say I’ve read dozens of marketing books. Swimming Downstream offers two things I rarely see together: clear, practical, and actionable guidance for growing brands and businesses, and also a ripping great read! If you’re looking for a serious (and seriously witty) book that will change the way you think about marketing and how you do it, this book is for you.
Helena Bouchez, Principal, Executive Words

The most unconventional marketing book I have ever read. Labarthe is a critical thinker who questions and refutes the typical marketing concepts and buzzwords, the models taught in business schools and marketing classes. Instead, his book is a celebration of logical thinking and common sense. It’s both refreshing and entertaining. Will recommend it to my students!
Prof. Dr. Michael Bahles, BSP Business & Law School Berlin

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Launch of the World’s First AI Organizer — Bika.ai

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September 9, 2025

Source: Media Outreach

Buzz in Silicon Valley as It Redefines the Future of the “One-Person Company”

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 9 September 2025 – A pioneering AI team today announced the launch of Bika.ai, the world’s first AI Organizer. The concept has already generated significant buzz in Silicon Valley, where experts view it as a breakthrough in reshaping productivity for the AI era.

The Dilemma: From Workers to Foremen

AI is everywhere. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and MidJourney have become tireless “digital workers” — writing, coding, designing on demand. Yet instead of leading these AI teams, humans have slipped into the role of foremen: endlessly prompting, editing, and micromanaging outputs.

The result is stalled productivity and growing digital fatigue. The situation mirrors the industrial era a century ago, when factories had machines but lacked management. It wasn’t until scientific management emerged that productivity truly soared. Today, the same principle applies: we don’t need more AI workers. We need an AI Organizer.

The Solution: Bika.ai, the AI Organizer

Unlike ordinary AI assistants, Bika.ai acts as the Organizer of AI teams. It coordinates, delegates, and oversees multiple AI agents, transforming scattered tools into a coherent organizational structure.

With Bika.ai, individuals can lead AI as if running their own companies:

Financial Advisors: Traditionally, they must manually track markets, compile reports, and send them to clients every day. With Bika.ai, stock news and data are automatically monitored, with visualized insight slides delivered to clients’ inboxes at 8 AM. Advisors can focus on investment strategy instead of paperwork.
Marketers: Campaign planning often requires juggling multiple platforms for emails, social media, and follow-ups. Bika.ai integrates these processes so that with one command, a three-day automated campaign across email, X (Twitter), and LinkedIn can be launched — complete with response tracking — multiplying marketing efficiency.
Insurance & Finance Professionals: Prospecting usually involves tedious cold calls. With Bika.ai, one can simply request “CFOs of companies that completed IPOs in 2025.” The system automatically discovers potential clients, builds a database, and triggers follow-up emails — making lead generation faster and sharper.
Entrepreneurs: Running a solo business often means wearing every hat — sales, marketing, support, product management. Bika.ai allows entrepreneurs to organize multiple AI “employees,” each handling a different role, effectively operating a one-person company with the power of a full team.

The Vision: From Chatbots to Organizers

Industry observers often describe AGI’s development as five levels:
1. Chatbot — simple Q&A
2. Reasoner — logical problem-solving
3. Agent— task execution
4. Innovator — creative generation
5. Organizer— orchestrating and managing other AI entities

Most current AI tools remain at Levels 2–3. Bika.ai aims for Level 5: the Organizer —where AI is no longer just a tool, but a coordinated digital workforce.

“The future of AI is not about adding more agents, but about managing them better,” said Kelly, Founder and CEO of the Bika.ai team. “Our mission is to make Bika.ai the scientific management system of the AI era — freeing people from digital busywork so they can focus on vision, creativity, and leadership.”

Hashtag: #Bika

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New model opens pathways to farm ownership for Kiwis

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September 9, 2025

Source: New Zealand Government

Landcorp has launched a new livestock equity partnership opportunity, designed to support equity-building pathways for farm operators and strengthen the future of farming in New Zealand, State Owned Enterprises Minister Simeon Brown says.

“This is a welcomed initiative that directly supports the Government’s priorities to strengthen rural employment, improve farm productivity, and create genuine pathways to ownership for the next generation of farmers,” Mr Brown says.

“By enabling operators to take financial responsibility behind the farm gate, we’re backing high performance and helping unlock the full potential of New Zealand’s farming sector.”

The equity partnership model builds on the State Owned Enterprise’s 2024 introduction of contract farming options for dairy farmers, including sharemilking and contract milking arrangements across four farms: Quarry and Otago in the Central Plateau, Waimakariri in Canterbury, and Ruru on the West Coast.

The first property available for expressions of interest is Mahiwi Farm, a 708-hectare livestock operation located 35 minutes west of Wairoa. The farm offers a strong balance of breeding and finishing country, with clear potential for improved performance.

“This model is about opening the gate and creating opportunities for the next generation of Kiwi farmers.

“The benefits extend beyond individual farms. It supports local employment, develops skills in rural communities, and helps ensure that high-performing farms stay in Kiwi hands, contributing to a resilient and productive agricultural sector for the long term.

“By offering equity options, we’re providing real pathways for more New Zealanders to take ownership and shape their future on the land,” Mr Brown says.

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