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Seeing red: the govt's omicron advice to business
Government's advice to business – be prepared.
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Jenny Ruth: A plea from a Facebook and Twitter refusenik
A government shouldn't be forcing journalists and citizens onto commercial platforms to get access to official information.
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Pattrick Smellie: Omicron arrives – we're all over it already
NZ is about to get mass covid for the first time, via omicron, yet the panic we saw pre-delta is absent. Are we getting better at this?
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Corridors of power – inside the world of NZ's political lobbyists
A dark art or democracy at work? Former cabinet minister Tau Henare, government relations consultant Mark Unsworth, and CEO Julian Davidson shed some light on lobbying.
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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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