On the Money: Christopher Luxon, Dean Bracewell, corporate/covid Christmas cards, and more

On the Money: Christopher Luxon, Dean Bracewell, corporate/covid Christmas cards, and more
Luxon: who will he chose in his crew? (Image: Getty)
Rebecca Stevenson
Who will Luxon hire?Wellington gossips have been kept busy trying to guess who newly-anointed National party leader Christopher Luxon will appoint to key positions in his office.In particular, there’s been speculation about whether any of the tight senior leadership team who served with Luxon when he was CEO at Air New Zealand might be persuaded to move under his wing at Parliament.So, when The Australian reported this week that Mike Tod, a long-serving comms Svengali and Luxon confidant at Air NZ was quitting his reasonably new gig...

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