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Fonterra rivals fear dairy giant will get leg up from law overhaul
Independent dairy processors fear Fonterra Cooperative Group will get an unfair advantage from proposed changes to the law governing the dairy sector and have warned MPs against rubber-stamping certain provisions.Parliament's primary production select committee is scheduled to re...
Primary Sector
Broader review powers eyed for Climate Change Commission
Risks around the government’s one billion trees programme appear to have prompted lawmakers to give the soon-to-be-formed Climate Change Commission greater power to recommend changes to the country’s long-term emissions targets and the carbon budgets to achieve them.Parliament’s...
Finance
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Venture capitalists split on govt picking winners
Views within the angel and venture capital sector on the government's $300 million Venture Capital Fund are divided, with many secretly agreeing with Lance Wiggs' public opposition but others welcoming the policy.Wiggs, founder of one of New Zealand's most successful venture capi...
Policy
Three not failing, just needs new owner - MediaWorks CEO
MediaWorks Investments' free-to-air television network isn't a failing business but needs a new owner to navigate a market skewed in favour of state-owned Television New Zealand, chief executive Michael Anderson says. He has been a critic of successive governments' broadcasting p...
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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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