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Game-changer: the new case for rooftop solar power
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Pattrick Smellie: Game-changer: the new case for rooftop solar power

Are smart technology and a clever business model game-changers for rooftop solar power?

Pattrick Smellie 29 Aug 2023
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Wellington's chessboard of top public servants

Are the best and brightest making themselves available to lead NZ's public service?

Nikitin Sallee 29 Aug 2023
There's an elephant in the China shop
Opinion

Cameron Bagrie: There's an elephant in the China shop

The deeper challenge with China is the arm-wrestle with the US.

Cameron Bagrie 28 Aug 2023
After climate reporting, here comes nature-related financial reporting
Environment

After climate reporting, here comes nature-related financial reporting

Many NZ companies are shocked to learn how dependant their business is on nature. 

Greg Hurrell 24 Aug 2023


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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