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Tasmania, and how megaprojects can setback dreams
Opinion

Dileepa Fonseka: Tasmania, and how megaprojects can setback dreams

Few things are more demoralising for society than not being able to power itself.

Dileepa Fonseka 14 Aug 2023
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Tax, tax and more tax …
Opinion

Warren Couillault: Tax, tax and more tax …

Taxpayers and their households are best placed to determine what to do with their money. 

Food prices dip month-on-month
News in Brief

Food prices dip month-on-month

ASB thinks food price inflation will continue to cool.

Staff reporters 11 Aug 2023
More job squeezes on the horizon for retail sector?
Retail

More job squeezes on the horizon for retail sector?

Retailers aren’t yet out of the woods when it comes to job cuts.

Ella Somers 11 Aug 2023


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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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