Politics
Politics
NZ and China, old friends
The prime minister and the Chinese ambassador gave back-to-back speeches on the NZ-China relationship.
Finance
Aged care underfunding danger
Of the number of people aged 80 and above, 14.6% are in aged residential care compared with about 13.9% in Australia.
Policy
Zero income but no cost of living payment
The government refuses to distribute the cost of living payments to those with zero taxable income, including up to 70,000 students.
Politics
NZME gets kick from Clarke Gayford
A statement supplied by Gayford said an NZME podcast and social media page made "untrue and damaging” about him.
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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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