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Finance
UPDATE: Makhlouf in denial, no resignation offer
(Updates with detail throughout) By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Public sector chief executives should offer to resign in the case of "major failings", but there was no such offer from Treasury secretary Gabriel Makhlouf over the Treasury website security laps...
Finance
Makhlouf failed to take personal responsibility for Budget leak: SSC
By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf failed to take appropriate personal responsibility for the website security breach that allowed the National Party to access secret budget documents ahead of the May 30 budget delivery, State Serv...
Economy
NZ govt's books in better shape than forecast on higher tax take
By Rebecca Howard June 27 (BusinessDesk) - The government's books for the first 11 months of the year are in better shape as the tax take came in higher than expected. The Crown accounts show the operating balance before gains and losses was in surplus by $7.0 billion for...
Policy
Hipkins seeks joined-up thinking across state bureaucracy
By Pattrick Smellie June 26 (BusinessDesk) - Major reforms to the law governing the public service will force far more collaboration between government agencies on the biggest policy challenges, State Services Minister Chris Hipkins says. Announcing the largest set of publ...
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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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