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How to lose a fast-track consent application
Primary Sector

Pattrick Smellie: How to lose a fast-track consent application

Would-be seabed miner TTR risks becoming a case study in rejection.

Pattrick Smellie 10 Apr 2024
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RBNZ keeps rates on hold at 5.5% as expected

Inflation was 4.7% in the December quarter.

Rebecca Howard 10 Apr 2024
Funding ‘crisis’ drives listed providers out of aged care
Markets

Funding ‘crisis’ drives listed providers out of aged care

The cost of delivering aged care services has “accelerated exponentially”.

Gregor Thompson 10 Apr 2024
Franchises' delight at migrant rule changes
Policy

Franchises' delight at migrant rule changes

Franchises no longer face much higher costs to bring in migrant workers.

Pattrick Smellie 10 Apr 2024


Pattrick Smellie
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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