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.
Policy
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Gavin Evans: OPINION: Smelter review a wake-up call on energy policy
The review of the Tiwai Point smelter should be a rude awakening for policymakers who seem to think New Zealand’s renewable energy bounty is going to give us a free pass in world markets.Politicians from all parties have talked up the prospects of new low-carbon export industries...
Infrastructure
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Pattrick Smellie: OPINION: All the questions the convention centre fire asks
As the flames die and the smoke clears on the roof of the unfinished New Zealand International Convention Centre roof, questions from this sorry episode spin out in many directions.There are the simple questions: how did it start? Whose individual incompetence, error or negligenc...
Finance
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Jenny Ruth: ANALYSIS: Why banks don't pass on full OCR cuts
New Zealand's four major banks may be feeling battered as they await the Reserve Bank's final decisions on how much extra capital they're going to have to hold, but they should thank their lucky stars they're not as exposed to ritual bashings as their Australian parents.Still gra...
Economy
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Pattrick Smellie: OPINION: FPAs and 'swallowing vomit' - the lot of the CTU
Council of Trade Unions president Richard Wagstaff was kept waiting by the Workplace Relations Minister, Iain Lees-Galloway, at the CTU's biennial conference in Wellington on Wednesday. It was either prophetic or to be expected. Wagstaff had to improvise while he waited for the m...
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