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Record low interest ensures carbon auction failure
It means the govt will have less money for its fiscal plans.
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Infrastructure
A holiday reading list for Luxon
This year's list is not exactly light holiday reading.
Property
Building work sluggish in September quarter
Wellington building work was down 17% from a year earlier.
News in Brief
Blow-out expected as govt deficit widens
Rising interest rates pushed up costs and revenue.
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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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