Politics
Primary Sector
Auditor general wants MPs to quiz food safety officials
MPI is consulting on a food import levy.
Public sector
Analysis
Hughes clues: the search for a new public service commissioner
There's no shortage of good candidates, but can the coalition agree on who to pick?
Policy
Govt restores interest deductibility on investment properties
Owning property is "just like any other business", landlords say
Bloomberg
Capital-gains tax hike wouldn't drive away the UK's wealthy
Tax havens rated as "boring and culturally barren".
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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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