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Government beefs up foot-and-mouth response
From this week, arrivals from Indonesia will have to step onto mats containing disinfecting chemicals to ensure their footwear is free of foot-and-mouth disease.
Opinion
Pattrick Smellie: Why I'm tired of the RBNZ blame game
It's easy to be an armchair critic with the benefit of hindsight, but the covid response wasn't as bad as people think.
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Analysis
Migrant nursing issue causing govt immigration woes
Someone botched the policy advice on the immigration green list, so why not have another go?
Politics
Govt’s pre-emptive strike on inflation bad news
The government is now committing more than $1 billion to stave off petrol price increases.
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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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