On the Money: Peter McBride, Antonia Watson, Nicole McKee, Phil Mauger, Ritesh Mani, the Accountants, and a reminder to pay your PR people

On the Money: Peter McBride, Antonia Watson, Nicole McKee, Phil Mauger, Ritesh Mani, the Accountants, and a reminder to pay your PR people
On The Money spots some rates-capping hypocrisy, as well as corporate moans about leaks. (Image: BusinessDesk/Supplied/NZME)
Dileepa Fonseka
On The Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.Perhaps Fonterra chair Peter McBride had just finished reading A Different Kind of Power this week, because he seemed to be doing a very good impression of Jacinda Ardern’s “single source of truth” in an email he co-authored to farmers with co-op CEO Miles Hurrell.Apparently, the co-operative’s head honchos are a little annoyed about all the unauthorised comments floating around about the...

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