Fran O'Sullivan
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Are New Zealand’s business leaders really too frightened to speak? (opens the original)
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Dr Oliver Hartwich of The NZ Initiative says too many of the country’s business leaders are living in a "climate of fear". Oliver Hartwich has put his finger on something rather uncomfortable. The New Zealand Initiative director says too many of the country’s business leaders are living in a “climate of fear” – worried that speaking publicly against election policies which are anti-business and market interventionist could invite political retaliation. In an open letter signed by 51 mainly NZ In
National cannot campaign on competition while ignoring the banks (opens the original)
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Nicola Willis this week hit on two great crowd-pleasers for the 2026 election. Cut people’s taxes. Take on the supermarkets. Tell voters they can keep more of their pay packet while promising to take a regulatory baseball bat to the supermarket duopoly and you have, at least in political terms, a pat answer to the cost-of-living squeeze. Yes, the Finance Minister is being cute. But an election is looming. What about the other markets where New Zealanders are being squeezed? The galloping insuran
Christchurch Airport's big future bet as international bookings surge (opens the original)
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The Kōwhai Park Solar Farm built adjacent to Christchurch Airport will open next month. Christchurch has become the city that won’t sit still. More than a decade after the earthquakes, it is no longer primarily a story of rebuild cranes, temporary buildings and recovery. It is a city leaning into its next phase — growing visitors, freight, technology, clean energy and high-value industry — and increasingly making its own economic weather rather than waiting for Wellington or Auckland to tell it
Barbara Edmonds has the credibility to lead Labour's economic fight (opens the original)
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In an election campaign where everyone professes to care about the price of mince, Barbara Edmonds is one of the few politicians who can talk in the same breath about mums at Pak’nSave and section EE31 of the Income Tax Act – and sound credible on both. Edmonds, who is Labour’s finance spokesperson – and the MP for Mana – is on track to become a household name. At the recent Politik election summit in Wellington, she showed why she should not be underestimated. She currently represents an electo
Canterbury growth: The next chapter is managing success (opens the original)
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Christchurch Airport is positioning itself as much more than an aviation gateway, writes Fran O'Sullivan. Fifteen years after the earthquakes tore the heart out of New Zealand’s second-largest city, Christchurch has completed one of the most remarkable urban rebuilds in the developed world. The next chapter is considerably more difficult. You can see it in the cranes over Christchurch, the industrial expansion across Rolleston, the pressure on housing in Selwyn and Waimakariri districts, the fre
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