Politics
Policy
High wholesale power prices unsustainable: Contact boss
Contact warns of risks in market intervention.
Policy
Housing market solution: just build houses
One development and construction company urges the industry to just get on with it.
Politics
Why did the lights go out?
An inquiry into this week's power blackouts will look at what happened – and if it could happen again.
Policy
Amazon's Lord of the Rings ditches New Zealand
Covid border restrictions and mounting costs were too much for the tech giant.
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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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