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Economy
Budget 2025: Facebook, Google escape NZ tax reform
NZ has chosen not to go it alone in taxing the "platforms".
Policy
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown launches tech alliance
Brown wants a focus on meaningful tech that creates high-paid jobs.
Politics
Budget 2025: Rail rolls on with $600m for upgrades
Ministers Winston Peters and Chris Bishop talked up benefits for freight, commuters.
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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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