Politics
Retail
D-Day for supermarket owners in competition probe
The D word – for divestment of supermarkets, wholesale warehousing, or both – will be the subject of the final part of the Commerce Commission's public conference on grocery competition.
Politics
NZ increases emissions pledge
NZ is increasing its emissions reductions pledge going into the Glasgow climate change summit, but says it will have buy a lot of the reduction from other countries.
Politics
Analysts puzzled by electricity regulator's analysis
But energy minister Megan Woods has no such doubts and is waving the intervention stick again.
Policy
Competition, lack of funding focus plague research and innovation sector
A consultation to modernise the 30-year-old Crown Research system will be open until March next year.
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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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