On the Money: Macron's moves, space junk, Labour's great capitalist and more

On the Money: Macron's moves, space junk, Labour's great capitalist and more
Now that's how you politick. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Paul McBeth
The other state visit this weekAnticipating scads of political speech-making before the Oct 14 election, BusinessDesk editor Pattrick Smellie took a strategically timed holiday this week to New Caledonia, missing Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese’s state visit to New Zealand in the process.Just one problem: French President Emmanuel Macron decided to pop in and, like a moth to the flame, Smellie stood around in the Place des Cocotiers in central Nouméa waiting for the man himself to appear last Wednesday afternoon.Mac...

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