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What a small business owner really wants
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Sarah Chambers: What a small business owner really wants

I don't want to take lunch breaks from my staff, or need 90-day trials. 

Sarah Chambers 21 Oct 2020
Climate targets require hydro dry-year answer - Carr
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Climate targets require hydro dry-year answer - Carr

Rod Carr says hydro-electricity dry-year risk needs to be solved, but has yet to give advice on how to do it.

Gavin Evans 20 Oct 2020
How to improve productivity by 1%
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Ryan Jennings: How to improve productivity by 1%

Business digitisation creates real opportunities to replace inefficient with efficient.

Ryan Jennings 20 Oct 2020
ELECTION 2020: Policy priorities of the new government
Policy

ELECTION 2020: Policy priorities of the new government

The new Labour majority government will not only be free of NZ First's influence, but able to choose whether and when to heed the Greens.