“Should LNG imports proceed, domestic gas pricing would increasingly be influenced by international energy markets as existing long-term contracts expire. This has the potential to place upward pressure on gas prices over time.” - LNG supplier.
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In one incident 41 students and 8 staff got sick, then there were the billing irregularities…
An Ombudsman decision means a memo about school lunch procurement concerns has now been released.
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“Everything the Chinese have been whispering into the ears of Cambodia, Vietnam & Malaysia, that the US doesn’t care about them & won’t take their interests into account, has been confirmed with a single bad decision.” -Richard McGregor, Lowy Institute www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Former head of the Australian Defence Force says Australia needs a plan B in case AUKUS falls apart… “The first six weeks of this administration has shown that no agreement is secure” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Mobile phones have surpassed diamonds as India’s biggest export as Apple quietly shifts its supply chain, via AFR www.afr.com/world/asia/a...
Deep and meaningful or not, NZ is aiming for one, and India has signed 10 bilateral FTAs, three in the last five years, none of them with a country that opposed its NSG membership. Oz seemed to think a deeper relationship couldn’t evolve without a change in position, John Key too softened NZ’s
Indeed. No one will ever directly link the two, but I suppose one way of looking at it is would India ever sign a deep and meaningful FTA with a country that believed it was rogue nuclear state?
A reminder that nationalism has ruined nations: “It's ideology: we can do it ourselves, we will put big tariff walls around the country, we will not enter into Free Trade Agreements…we have some 2500-year history [as] a bunch of bad-ass pig-headed Sinhala Buddhists” www.stuff.co.nz/business/131...
It’s nuclear, it’s political, and it might be difficult to progress the NZ-India relationship without resolving it. My article for BusinessDesk looks at a big nuclear issue India might find hard to look past: businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...
Britain’s Investments summits didn’t rescue Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, or Keir Starmer in the polls. Will NZ’s version fare any better? More importantly, what do we want from the summit? businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...
When property value fears derail hazard assessments www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
“Singapore’s defence minister Ng Eng Hen said after hearing Vance’s speech at Munich …that America’s image in Asia ‘has changed from liberator to great disruptor to a landlord seeking rent’.” insidestory.org.au/the-unilater...
Advanced data shows the US goods trade deficit spiked to record highs in January, with imports jumping by $34B as businesses and consumers rushed to buy foreign goods ahead of Trump's tariff hikes
📢 On the Money is our weekly newsletter of general frippery from the worlds of business and government.OTM is not quite sure why the Tall Blacks couldn’t ha...
Relevant to today’s events:
“If the US position is now to identify what you can do for the US and then use all its considerable leverage to ensure it is done, where does it leave our historical dependence on the US as the last resort defender of Australia?”
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📢 Fletcher Building and SkyCity both say they are not responsible for the delay in opening the New Zealand International Convention Centre.In a statement to the N...
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At one point, NZ allegedly had just 50 artillery rounds. Not per gun. Total. businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...
📢 The head of the India New Zealand Business Council says the Indian Government has started sounding out some of India's largest businesses on their feelings...
📢 Running NZ to failure (First published July 29)As hospitals in the United Kingdom reverted to pen and paper for part of last week, the New Zealand way of runnin...
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📢 Australasian casinos appear to be doing their best to disprove the old gambling adage that the house always wins. One major Australian casino chain, Star,...
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One of the most enjoyable jobs i have is writing #failfile for @businessdesk.nzcow.com
You can read the best of 2025 in this link. Warning! early ones were free, there is a paywall now.
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So as some of you know, I sued the board of Laura Fergusson and then ended up being Chair! It's been a busy year, we brought a house in Mt Albert for transitional accommodation for people leaving the Spinal Unit and began some gym programmes (🧵 1)
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“The apex predator may rack up some impressive kills, but the jungle will grow deadlier and more savage for everyone – including, eventually, for the United States, too.” -Ian Bremmer open.substack.com/pub/gzeromed...
NZ exodus making it difficult for Australia to contain migration numbers. Permanent residency rule change for NZers described as an “own goal” in the AFR. Might not be long before Australia changes the rules again.. www.afr.com/politics/fed...
Always great to ring in the New Year watching the fireworks over the Skytower.
Best wishes for a fantastic 2025 Aotearoa! Happy New Year!
New Zealand’s real Eiffel Tower 😉
Victoria has been the lowest-spending lowest-taxing Mainland state of Australia for the past 25 years according to AFR analysis. Also received very low share of central govt funds, & didn’t get access to its mining royalties. www.afr.com/politics/the...
Incredible that Christchurch cathedral restoration costs would have been 20% of Notre Dame’s for a city with only 1/30th of the population of Paris metro area.
