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Ardern reshuffles Woods to housing czar; no demotion for Twyford
By Pattrick Smellie June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made Megan Woods her new housing minister in a bid to cauterise the political damage done by Phil Twyford’s leadership of the struggling KiwiBuild programme. Twyford remains in charge of urban devel...
Policy
Faafoi seeks enduring iwi framework from 5G spectrum talks
By Paul McBeth June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Communications Minister Kris Faafoi wants a framework for iwi radio spectrum allocations that will endure beyond the current discussions over 5G technology. The minister said he's had positive conversations over Treaty of Waitangi i...
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...
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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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