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📢 Dinner with the friendly Ghost(published March 16)Descending into Ghost Street in Britomart is stepping back in time. It’s a low-ceiling underground space...
Best of BusinessDesk: Top restaurant reviews from 2025
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December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 Roger Hall, playwright(published July 19)What do I know? I know that I have the sense to appreciate how lucky I’ve been, but also recognise that I wo...
Best of BusinessDesk: Top Fail File columns from 2025 – part 1
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December 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 The good, the bad and the ugly: SkyCity’s balance sheet in focus(published Aug 08)For SkyCity, it was a dream that turned into a nightmare. Now, years lat...
Best of BusinessDesk: Top columns from 2025
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December 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📢 A quiet revolution in capital and control(published Dec 1)When Barbara Edmonds stood up at Labour’s conference on Saturday and said New Zealand “can...
Best of BusinessDesk: My top columns from 2025
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December 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 Former High Court judge Hon Robert Philip Smellie KC, more recently known as one of the Labour Party’s largest donors, has died. Smellie, 95, died pe...
Obituary: Robert Smellie, an open-minded judge with a socialist heart
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December 24, 2025 at 2:32 AM
📢 The New Zealand sharemarket ended on a slightly firmer note after a very thin, shortened pre-Christmas session. The S&P/NZX 50 Index ended 11.33 points...

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NZ sharemarket edges higher in quiet pre-Christmas trading session
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December 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
📢 Australian conglomerate EVT Limited has acquired the QT Auckland viaduct hotel for $87.5 million.The 150-room hotel is owned by NZ Hotel Holdings, but was desig...
EVT buys QT Auckland hotel in $87.5m deal
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December 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
📢 The Commerce Commission says it is “currently not satisfied” that the proposed merger of Godfrey Hirst and Bremworth won’t impact competition...
Commerce Commission flags competition concerns over Godfrey Hirst Bremworth deal
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December 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
📢 By Abha BhattaraiThe US economy grew at its fastest pace in two years from July through September, capping six months of robust growth that economists caution i...
US economic growth surges highest in two years
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December 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
📢 In which decade did Charlie Chaplin die?.What 1976 film featured Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel and Jodie Foster?Who released the album The Joshua Tree in 1987?I...
QuiznessDesk, Wednesday, Dec 24
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December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📢 Liquidators for Brookfield Multiplex Constructions (NZ) have reached a $23.5 million settlement with the underwriters of two Auckland CBD apartment bu...

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Leaky apartment builder settles with insurer for $23.5m
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December 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 Auckland-based technology platform Futureverse is in liquidation, with massive retained losses of $137.4 million. Futureverse Corporation creditors appoint...
Metaverse meltdown: Futureverse in liquidation
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December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 New Zealand is still stuck in a low‑productivity rut, according to a new Long-term Insights Briefing from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment an...
Our productivity complacency is killing our future
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December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 Chatham Rock Phosphate has sold its Australian subsidiary for A$900,000 (NZ$1 million) cash and a stake in a manufacturing plant that will process rock from its...
Chatham Rock Phosphate sells Australian subsidiary for $1.4m
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December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 Finance Minister Nicola Willis goes into the summer break knowing that “the jury is out” on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s coalition Gover...
Nicola Willis on the election: ‘the jury’s out’
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December 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📢 Trading volumes fell, and stand-out price movements were few and far between as the holiday mood descended on a listless New Zealand sharemarket.The S&P/NZX...

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NZ sharemarket ends up again, end of year in sight
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December 23, 2025 at 5:12 AM
📢 The Electricity Authority has lodged a formal complaint with an independent panel alleging a breach of an industry code by power generator Genesis Energy.The au...
Genesis Energy faces complaint over alleged Huntly power plant code breach
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December 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
📢 The dairy sector is disappointed that New Zealand’s latest free trade agreement failed to secure meaningful access to the Indian market for core dairy pro...
India-NZ trade deal disappoints dairy exporters
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December 22, 2025 at 11:22 PM
📢 New Zealand's apple deal with India could make the US envious. At the same time, India's commerce minister has revealed its free trade agreement with NZ...
India’s NZ FTA ‘clawback’ and why apples are a win
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December 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
📢 Steven Bardy has been appointed deputy chair of the Financial Markets Authority (FMA).Bardy, who is currently chair of the Audit and Risk Committee, will serve...

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Steven Bardy appointed deputy Financial Markets Authority chair
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December 22, 2025 at 9:52 PM
📢 Who played Peter Pan in Steven Spielberg`s film Hook?Which pop singer did Debbie Rowe marry?What was the nickname of the swimmer from Equatorial Guinea who took...
QuiznessDesk, Tuesday, Dec 23
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December 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📢 India and New Zealand have struck a comprehensive free trade agreement, and India’s cabinet has now, reportedly, also signed off on the deal.Trade Ministe...
NZ strikes comprehensive Free Trade Agreement deal with India, now comes the hard part
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December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
📢 By Tobi Raji, Leo Sands In 1976, the government of oil-rich Venezuela assumed control of the country’s petroleum industry, nationalising hundreds of...
Trump says Venezuela stole US oil, land and assets. Here’s the history
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December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 The Reserve Bank of New Zealand has so far spent $3 million addressing asbestos issues at its Wellington base but hasn’t made financial provision for poss...

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RBNZ spends $3m on remediating asbestos issues
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December 22, 2025 at 4:03 PM
📢 93% of humans say Christmas shopping is tedious and potentially life-threateningMore than 100% of those who buy, or intend to buy, gifts for friends, family or...
Santa disrupted
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December 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM