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Pattrick Smellie: The end of mask mandates: a covid turning point
Facemasks remain the constant, visual reminder of the pandemic, but perhaps for not much longer in most situations. When they go, a key symbol of the last two-plus years will disappear.
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Carbon prices press higher
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Immigration
Australia to welcome thousands more migrants to ease crisis
The Australian Labor government is relaxing immigration settings to try and offset chronic labour shortages.
Opinion
Cameron Bagrie: NZ's economic outlook: still a slog ahead
Latest signals from the Reserve Bank of NZ suggest no V-shaped bounceback in economic activity in the next two years.
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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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