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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.
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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...
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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...
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Brian Gaynor: BRIAN GAYNOR: Charity sector needs far more transparency
The charity sector appears to have made a solid recovery since the global financial crisis, which had a major impact on donations and investment returns.However, the Charities Register website, which is supposed to contain information on all 27,396 NZ registered charities, is poo...
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Barrie Saunders: OPINION: TVNZ – RNZ merger another broadcasting train wreck?
Former broadcast journalist and TVNZ director between 2011 and 2017, Barrie Saunders, sees a foregone conclusion with unintended consequences in the proposed TVNZ-RNZ merger.The RNZ Concert programme train wreck is but a prelude to what is likely if the proposed RNZ-TVNZ merger g...
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