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Dileepa Fonseka

Sat, 20 Dec 2025

On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.Fonterra's annual meetings are usually a bit of a high watermark of the year when it comes to boredom, even more so when it comes to unitholder events. This time, though, OTM’s rural correspondent arrived at the event to find Greenpeace activists had dumped two tonnes of slime across Fonterra’s forecourt and were attempting to quarantine the building.A man with a camera quickly moved in and asked if o...

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