Listen to The Country online: Associate Minister of Finance Shane Jones on banking competition in NZ

Associate Minister of Finance Shane Jones spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay about the banking inquiry on today's show. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Associate Minister of Finance Shane Jones, to talk about banking competition in New Zealand.

On with the show:

Shane Jones:

He refers to himself as the “Prince of the Provinces” but is he still the Prince of the Pine Trees? Does he still want to plant a billion trees? And what is he going to do about the energy crisis and banking competition in New Zealand?

Dr Jenny Webster-Brown:

The co-author of a just-released white paper, Why Pines? warns there will be a significant transition of sheep and beef farmers into pine forestry unless the current government policies and economic signals are reconsidered.

Mark Warren:

We head to the coalface to talk to a Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer and farm forester who asks “Is production/carbon forestry the new diamond mining?”

Jason Te Brake:

We yarn to the new chief executive of Zespri about record returns for the industry.

Someone:

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