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From dog to top dog: how did Northport come out tops to replace Auckland?
A draft report favouring the expansion of Whangarei’s Northport to replace the port on Auckland’s city waterfront is full of “surprising” and “concerning” conclusions, a lot of “padding”, and appears to ignore major factors for such a decision.Those are some of the conclusions fr...
Economy
Chile still open for business
After a month of social unrest, violence, and political promises to bring peace to Chile, BusinessDesk’s Rebecca Howard found plenty of officials keen to point out that the Latin American nation is still open for business.Chile’s agriculture sector has long attracted New Zealand...
Policy
Spy agencies sought govt's foreign new investment 'call-in' powers
New Zealand's spies advised the government to give itself new powers to 'call in' applications by foreign investors for military and other national security assets, and privately-owned news media, Associate Finance Minister David Parker says.Asked by journalists whether intellige...
Policy
Beehive lobbied for revised StuffME deal
NZME has confirmed reports that it's been lobbying the government to let it buy rival Stuff, a year after the Court of Appeal endorsed the Commerce Commission's opposition to the creation of a dominant newspaper group. The dual-listed company said it was in talks with Nine and pu...
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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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