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Policy
Govt unlikely to intervene in transmission pricing
The government appears unlikely to intervene in planned changes to the way electricity transmission costs are allocated. The electricity price review completed last year had recommended the government issue a policy statement on transmission pricing, given the potential for we...
Politics
Jane Clifton: JANE CLIFTON: Good old-fashioned incompetence
Mistakes were always inevitable in what we’re forced repeatedly to acknowledge are “unprecedented times.” What’s crushingly disappointing is that our government’s errors have turned out to be the head-slapping errors of boring old precedented times.
Policy
Puhoi to Warkworth PPP claim adds pressure to stretched land transport fund
The New Zealand Transport Agency has provided for an $83 million claim on the unfinished $709.5 million Puhoi to Warkworth road, adding even more pressure to an already stretched budget.The project is the second public-private partnership used by the NZTA and, like Transmission G...
Policy
Peter Griffin: PETER GRIFFIN: Health reform: Axe the fax then get serious about data
The largest restructure of the health sector in a generation is coming in the next few years with the government signalling it likes the “direction of travel” of the changes recommended in the Heather Simpson review. But halving the number of district health boards, doing away...
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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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