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COVID-19: Anti-competition laws relaxed for business
The government is instructing its competition watchdog, the Commerce Commission, to "be more flexible than it might be in normal times" to let competing businesses work together, share resources, or take other cooperative measures."Commerce Minister Kris Faafoi issued the instruc...
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Pattrick Smellie: ANDREW BASCAND: Faster please to avoid the void
Even with the pace of health and economic support being rapidly mobilised to fight covid-19, Andrew Bascand, managing director of Harbour Asset Management and one of New Zealand's most astute observers of both the domestic and global economic trends, argues that we need to shift...
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What business needs to know: work from home, don't travel, stay tuned
The government is asking all businesses that can operate without opening their offices to do so from today and to expect potentially rapid changes in the alert status applying to both their own region and to the country as a whole.In a rare televised 'address to the nation' at no...
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Shut everything now: Govt still behind the curve - health expert
Placing New Zealanders on alert for a national lockdown once the covid-19 virus is established here is acting too late, says leading public health expert and communicable diseases professor Michael Baker.He was speaking after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced, in a national...
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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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