Politics

There’s light, but how long is the covid tunnel?
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Pattrick Smellie: There’s light, but how long is the covid tunnel?

Quarantine times may soon drop from 14 to six days for travel from 'safer' countries, but there is still at least a year to go before covid will be behind us.

Pattrick Smellie 07 Dec 2020
Former homeowners using KiwiSaver funds too
Policy

Former homeowners using KiwiSaver funds too

Former property owners are following the lead of first-home buyers and using their KiwiSaver funds to get back into the overheated housing market.

Brent Melville 07 Dec 2020
Public sector emission targets 'not achievable'
Policy Free

Public sector emission targets 'not achievable'

There's going to be a "massive" increase in buying of carbon offsets as a result.

Gavin Evans 03 Dec 2020
IRD needs power to unpick convoluted affairs of the rich
Policy

IRD needs power to unpick convoluted affairs of the rich

Revenue Minister David Parker says the tax affairs of some wealthy taxpayer groups are complex. 

Victoria Young 03 Dec 2020


Pattrick Smellie
Pattrick Smellie

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Pattrick was judged New Zealand's best overall columnist and business columnist of the year at the Voyager 2021 Media Awards. He has more than 35 years’ experience reporting and working in New Zealand politics and the commercial sector. A former Press Gallery chairman, he is an award-winning journalist and has worked for titles including The Dominion, The Press, Sunday Star-Times and National Business Review. He was the first NZ correspondent for The Australian and co-founded BusinessDesk in 2008.

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