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Transport dominates investment intentions - Treasury
NZTA forecast investments of $120b over the next 10 years, dwarfing other agencies.
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Rau Paenga rebuffed over repeated Scott Base offers
New documents show the agency repeatedly offered to help deliver the troubled project.
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Tens of thousands descend on Wellington in historic day of mass protest
New estimates point to 55,000 people attending today’s historic march on Parliament.The number of demonstrators has dwarfed the anti-Covid Parliamentary occupation of 2022 and is more than double that of the huge Seabed and Foreshore hīkoi two decades ago.Act Party leader David S...
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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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