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Introduction New Zealand's energy sector experienced the first year of the new coalition Government's policy workplan in 2024. The Government's legislative focus is to enable regulatory settings for industry development and investment, rather than the Government making direct investment into the sector.

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Although not exactly hot off the press, as the fine was announced back in early October, but what has been described by the independent review “Protecting from Within” as: the most significant data breach that has ever occurred in the history of UK policing, not only because of the nature and volume of the political history and context that sets the backdrop of contemporary policing in Northern Ireland and therefore the actual, or perceived, threats towards officers, staff and communities...