Budget 2025
The BusinessDesk team delivers everything you need to know about 2025's budget.
Opinion
Cameron Bagrie: The Government's Bunny Budget
Budget 2026 is going to be the real test of this Government’s fiscal credentials.
Energy
OMV, Todd assets ripe for Govt gas discovery support
Gas prospects off the coast of Taranaki, Kawhia and Oamaru look most likely.
Politics
‘Comes at a cost’: Business leaders on Budget
Fiscal discipline is a good thing, but it has come at a price, say business leaders.
Infrastructure
Budget 2025: 'No big bang' for infrastructure
Only one of three non-roading PPPs got funding in the Budget.
Pattrick Smellie
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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.
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