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Jem Traylen 06 Mar 2024
School designers spend ‘relatively modest’
Infrastructure Exclusive

School designers spend ‘relatively modest’

Ministry of Education spent $467m on building design consultants between 2019 and 2023.

Cécile Meier 05 Mar 2024
PM heads to Asean-Australia special summit in Melbourne
News in Brief

PM heads to Asean-Australia special summit in Melbourne

Prime minister Christopher Luxon is off to Melbourne on Tuesday to meet his Southeast Asian counterparts.He’ll also meet key trans-Tasman business leaders on his two-day trip across the Ditch.Luxon’s meetings with several Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) leaders wil...

Staff reporters 04 Mar 2024


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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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