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Ban new gas connections, car imports: Climate Commission
Infrastructure

Ban new gas connections, car imports: Climate Commission

Cooking with gas will start becoming a thing of the past from mid-decade if the Climate Change Commission's advice on how to 'pick up the pace' to meet climate change targets is accepted.

Gavin Evans 31 Jan 2021
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Heavy industry's future in a low-carbon NZ: Climate Commission
Infrastructure

Heavy industry's future in a low-carbon NZ: Climate Commission

Energy strategy must include long-term plan for hard-to-decarbonise industries like steel making, cement and lime.

Gavin Evans 31 Jan 2021
Cruise industry livid as govt dodges Wiggles 2.0
Policy

Cruise industry livid as govt dodges Wiggles 2.0

For the second time in a fortnight, the govt faces embarrassment from over-eager would-be migrant entertainments

Pattrick Smellie 29 Jan 2021
French vessel stranded over visa kerfuffle
Economy

French vessel stranded over visa kerfuffle

The ship departed for New Zealand without having visas for all 90 crew. 

Staff reporters 29 Jan 2021


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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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