Politics
Policy
Pattrick Smellie: Housing package: this term’s oil and gas ban?
The housing package may work politically, but as policy goes, it's a bit of a muddle.
Politics
Brightline test reform ‘worse than doing nothing’: Treasury
Treasury says subsidising developers would be better than the way the government has changed the tax system for property investors.
Policy
Govt's 2025 carbon free target unreachable for vehicle fleet
Officials say more leadership and money is needed to pick up the pace of greening the government's vehicle fleet.
Policy
Strings attached to new $3.8b housing infrastructure fund
If councils want the new money for housing land development, they will have to get on board first with central government's desire for urban intensification.
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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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