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Business of Government: Brickbats and bouquets edition
Our final weekly round-up of public sector news and analysis for 2024.
Policy
Analysis
Fast-track passes and the pendulum swings
Private interests, public good and the fate of frogs.
Politics
Fiscal blowout blamed on Treasury’s optimism
Unwinding of Treasury's growth assumption has been a "slow reveal".
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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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