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Labour boosts its books with a last-ditch digital tax
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Labour boosts its books with a last-ditch digital tax

Why did the government introduce a new tax law on the last day of parliament?

Pattrick Smellie 07 Sep 2023
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QLDC awards CEO with 8% salary boost, while rates rocket
Law & Regulation

QLDC awards CEO with 8% salary boost, while rates rocket

Council boss now earns equivalent of 146 Queenstown ratepayers' rates bills.

Brent Melville 06 Sep 2023
Upton says emissions plan lacked early political leadership
Policy

Upton says emissions plan lacked early political leadership

A review of how the government’s first emissions reduction plan was drawn up showed it needed clearer direction from political leaders from the start of the process.Simon Upton, the parliamentary commissioner for the environment, said putting together an emissions reduction plan...

Staff reporters 06 Sep 2023
Third carbon auction this year fails to clear
Policy

Third carbon auction this year fails to clear

There were not enough bids to clear the NZUs on offer.

Ian Llewellyn 06 Sep 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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