Politics
Primary Sector
Analysis
Fisheries Bill sailed off-course
This wasn't even the fisheries bill the cabinet signed up to.
Policy
Polytech merger mess 'just gets messier'
Budget cuts at the new mega-polytech – Te Pūkenga – risk derailing its Jan 1, 2023, start date, says the National party's shadow tertiary education minister, Penny Simmonds.
Property
Exclusive
Kāinga Ora faces 60 years of unmanageable debt
The minister of housing should reject Kāinga Ora 2023 budget requests for now, according to leaked advice to minister Megan Woods.
Opinion
Pattrick Smellie: Polytech mess: why Labour should worry
All signs point to a botched implementation of the mega-merger of the country's polytechnics. Coinciding with a skills crisis and a reform agenda full of big centralising reforms, the issue is dangerous for Labour.
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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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