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Policy
End of refining will have little impact on petrol prices: Z Energy
The country's biggest transport fuel retailer doesn't expect motorists will notice any difference and says its competitiveness would increase.
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Pattrick Smellie: Reopening NZ – a Pandora’s box
Thursday's consultation paper on whether and how to ease NZ's covid restrictions will disappoint anyone expecting easy answers.
Politics
‘Extreme vetting’ in future for National candidates
Will National's president of the last 11 years, Peter Goodfellow, become the latest victim of the party's disastrous lead-up to the 2020 election?
Policy
The end of oil refining in NZ
Sixty years of oil refining in New Zealand will cease with the loss of more than 200 jobs.
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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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