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Infrastructure
Pattrick Smellie: Smoke, mirrors and delay – National’s three waters policy
National's three waters policy is only cosmetically distinct from Labour's.
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Trade
Plea to not get complacent about Australia-NZ relations
An Australia-NZ trade event shows there is still work to be done on trade.
Retail sales flat in December quarter
The biggest declines were in building, gardening and hardware.
Infrastructure
NZ will reach peak petrol by 2025
The forecasts show that petrol demand will peak around 2024-25 as the country's light vehicle fleet electrifies.
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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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