Opinion

Opinion and analysis from Pattrick Smellie, Peter Griffin, David Chaplin and Cameron Bagrie and a top-level group of New Zealand experts, including the BusinessDesk editorial team.
BRIAN GAYNOR: Be warned - David Ross is a free man
Finance Free

Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Be warned - David Ross is a free man

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Brian Gaynor 28 Feb 2020
GAVIN EVANS: No clean hands in Matthews saga
Policy Best of BusinessDesk

Gavin Evans: GAVIN EVANS: No clean hands in Matthews saga

In this article, republished from last February, Gavin Evans asks whether any parties truly took responsibiility for their part in the saga of former Auditor-General Martin Matthews.

Gavin Evans 26 Feb 2020
BRIAN GAYNOR: Ageing knights in spotlight for wrong reasons
Markets

Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Ageing knights in spotlight for wrong reasons

Recent developments regarding Sir Bob Jones and Sir Ron Brierley have been sad for one and devastating for the other.The two ageing businessmen - Jones is 80 and Brierley 82 - were sharemarket rock stars in the 1980s, but investors suffered huge losses in their listed companies.L...

Brian Gaynor 21 Feb 2020
PATTRICK SMELLIE: Time for some Prime Ministerial authority
Election 2020

Pattrick Smellie: PATTRICK SMELLIE: Time for some Prime Ministerial authority

Round and round went the Press Gallery’s questions to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern this afternoon.They asked whether her Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters’s, actions in boasting of photographs showing journalists and their sources was ethical or appropriate.Other than to cri...

Pattrick Smellie 17 Feb 2020