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NZ joins like-minded countries to promote cyber security
Infrastructure

NZ joins like-minded countries to promote cyber security

By Paul McBeth July 2 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's government will buddy up with like-minded countries to build a rules-based order supporting a peaceful and stable online environment at a time when state-sponsored cyber attacks are on the rise.  Broadcasting, Communicati...

Paul McBeth 01 Jul 2019
Mild weather trims Orion's full-year profit
Infrastructure

Mild weather trims Orion's full-year profit

By Gavin Evans July 1 (BusinessDesk) - Orion New Zealand, the country’s third-largest power distributor, says full-year profit was about $2.5 million lower than target due to mild weather and a tough year for the firm’s Connetics contracting arm. The company, owned by the C...

Gavin Evans 01 Jul 2019
Real-time pricing to mark biggest electricity market change since birth in 1996
Infrastructure

Real-time pricing to mark biggest electricity market change since birth in 1996

By Gavin Evans June 28 (BusinessDesk) - Businesses and households will get clearer electricity price signals under the biggest change to the wholesale power market since it was established in 1996. Under the changes planned by the Electricity Authority, customers will be ab...

Gavin Evans 28 Jun 2019
Aussie housing downturn FBU's big challenge, says Jarden
Infrastructure

Aussie housing downturn FBU's big challenge, says Jarden

By Pattrick Smellie June 28 (BusinessDesk) - Fletcher Building's credibility relies on delivering improvements in its Australian business before anything else, even though there are signs of a "major downturn" in the Australian residential construction sector and potential for...

Pattrick Smellie 28 Jun 2019


Oliver Lewis
Oliver Lewis

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Oliver Lewis won the local government reporting category at the 2023 Voyager Media Awards. He is part of our investigations unit and also covers infrastructure, housing and employment issues. Formerly with Stuff/The Press, Oliver has also written for the Guardian and North & South. 

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