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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 28/08/2026
📢 On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.  There are signs, if you know wher...
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On the Money: Craig Stobo, Catherine McGrath, Wayne Brown, Simon Watts, Greg Foran, Wu Chihchung and more
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
An unusual intervention from corporate New Zealand: the CEO of F&P Healthcare, the NZX’s largest non-bank company, arguing pretty bluntly that NZ needs to spend more on healthcare and that the “first world” quality of it is being eroded. businessdesk.co.nz/article/heal...
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Eric Crampton @ericcrampton.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Extensive @dileepafonseka.bsky.social interview with Alain Bertaud at BusinessDesk. Auckland's improved since Bertaud's last visit. I hope it will be even better on his next visit. businessdesk.co.nz/article/infr...
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“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. @dileepafonseka.bsky.social (paywalled)
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Bidder’s message: Build LNG, expect upward pressure on gas prices
A Turkish company that participated in the Government’s hunt for Liquefied Natural Gas options says New Zealand faces “upward pressure” on gas...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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. businessdesk.co.nz/article/inve...
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Officials urged exclusion of school lunch supplier over billing breaches and safety failings
The Ministry of Education has released a damning internal memo outlining serious concerns about school lunch suppliers Libelle and Compass, after the Ombudsman...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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It’s not the debt that’ll sink us
Something rather unexpected happened at one point during Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s pre-budget speech in Auckland last week: silence.The BusinessN...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“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...
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Trump’s tariff war sparks regional security concerns
Donald Trump’s tariff blitz will impoverish developing regional nations and drive them towards China’s bosom, the government fears.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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...
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‘We need a plan B’: Admiral’s call for AUKUS rethink over unreliable Trump
Former Defence Force chief Chris Barrie says he has watched with alarm as the US president upends traditional alliances.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
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Apple’s quiet pivot to India
The iPhone maker wants to diversify its supply chain beyond China. Can the world’s largest democracy deliver?
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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...
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'A long time for a Sri Lankan to starve'
Child malnutrition is skyrocketing in Sri Lanka as the country encounters its worst economic crisis since independence, how did things get so bad?
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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...
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The major nuclear 'irritant' to closer NZ-India relations
New Zealand is edging closer to a deeper diplomatic and trade relationship with India, but an old nuclear obstacle still looms.A former assistant secretary-gene...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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...
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UK experience shows New Zealand Infrastructure Investment Summit needs more strategy and less secrecy
Like an episode of Coronation Street, the Investment Summit craze from Britain has arrived, but it’s a bit later for us. Britain has held three such...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
When property value fears derail hazard assessments www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...
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The council, the law and the never-ending coastal hazards saga
OPINION: Council politicians and staff live in a purgatory between central government’s legislative factory and grumpy ratepayers who hold “the bloody council” responsible for all their woes.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
“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...
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The unilateralist • Hamish McDonald
Just a month into the Trump presidency, America’s allies are being forced to think the once-unthinkable
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 28/02/2025
📢 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...
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On the Money: Tall Blacks, Neal Barclay, cockroaches, Andrew Reding, Wayne Brown and more...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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?” www.afr.com/policy/forei...
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Trump’s Gaza grab shows America is no better than China
Australia’s former top diplomat says Donald Trump may achieve what 75 years of post-war anti-Americanism could not: concede the case for moral equivalence.
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 07/02/2025
📢 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... 👉 Latest news bot: Palmy School News
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Fletcher Building says no change to NZICC date as SkyCity blames contractor delays for 2026 opening
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
At one point, NZ allegedly had just 50 artillery rounds. Not per gun. Total. businessdesk.co.nz/article/poli...
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NZ Defence Force artillery stocks were allegedly run down to 50 rounds of ammo
The New Zealand Defence Force refuses to say whether artillery ammunition stocks were ever allowed to run so low that the whole country was left with 50 rounds...
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 21/01/2025
📢 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...
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India tests waters on free trade with NZ
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 10/01/2025
📢 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... 👉 More news/weather bots
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Best of BusinessDesk: Dileepa Fonseka's top columns from 2024
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BusinessDesk (Unofficial) @businessdesk.nzcow.com · 13/01/2025
📢 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,... 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates
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Star casino on a losing streak, but SkyCity is in a better place, analysts say
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Victoria Carter NZ 😄🌳🌎🐶🤗 @vcarternz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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. #learning #sharing businessdesk.co.nz/article/fail...
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Victoria Carter NZ 😄🌳🌎🐶🤗 @vcarternz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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) www.laurafergusson.co.nz
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Laura Fergusson Trust Inc CC29785
Laura Fergusson, transitional home, rehabilitation for physically disabled community
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
“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...
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The Donroe Doctrine
In a G-Zero world, where no one country or group of countries is willing and able to provide global leadership, the law of the jungle prevails.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Always great to ring in the New Year watching the fireworks over the Skytower.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Best wishes for a fantastic 2025 Aotearoa! Happy New Year!
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
New Zealand’s real Eiffel Tower 😉
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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...
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The five main reasons Victoria is in this financial mess
Victoria has been the lowest-taxing, lowest-spending mainland state over the past 25 years, a new analysis shows. Its bottom line is still a disaster, but it’s not all self-inflicted.
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matty_prasad @urbanmatt.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Lol Notre dame cathedral had a devastating fire and is mostly restored, reopening about 5 years later today. Christchurch cathedral. still a pile of ruble.
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💉💉💉Kumara📎Republic↙️↙️↙️ @kumararepublic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
NZ seems to have caught an English disease that isn't football hooliganism... bsky.app/profile/kuma...
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Eddie Clark @dreddieclark.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm sure they'll all be happy to have their rates increased to pay for it.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
And so the Wellington City to Sea rebellion begins: “I do not want a new bridge, I want the existing structures … please stop this process, please pause and reconsider everything.” www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3604...
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Stuff
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Jessica de Heij @jdeheij.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
City life 😍
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third culture @thirdculturebot.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
big tree lit up lfg
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Ryan CrawCour @ryan.crawcour.social · 23/11/2024
Tāmaki Makaurau gathering around the tree. It's starting to feel a little festive.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Te Komititanga lighting up last night. Great event.
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Shaun Baker @sbaker1428.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Xmas at Te Komititanga at dusk 🎄
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Christmas in Te Komititanga Square! (Yes, am aware it’s still November)
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
AFR says US and Australian officials are warning Australian govt that a crackdown on social media (including age requirements for accounts & attempts to force US tech giants to pay for local news content) could see US slap tariffs on exports www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Trump may use tariffs to hit back at PM’s tech crackdown
American and Australian officials are warning the Albanese government that its crackdown on social media platforms could anger the incoming US president into putting tariffs on $33 billion of exports.
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Louise Hutt @saycheeselouise.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Hamilton was put on a negative watch by Standard & Poors because we didn't increase rates adequately last year - 4.9%, and a motion from myself an Cr Thomson to move it to 5.9% failed. The average rates rise across the country this year was 15%. We can't pretend high rates are unique.
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Very funny read in the New Yorker: “One thing is certain—Democrats need to have a bold, progressive vision for the future that does not alienate voters who dislike things that are bold, progressive, or visions for the future.” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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This Election Just Proves What I Already Believed
The list of issues I was right about goes on and on. Guns? Kamala Harris owns too many, but also not enough.
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Clever Hansel 💗💜💙 @cleverhansel.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Wellington Man Has Crushing Realisation About Frequency of Good Days
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 17/11/2024
whoa! an actual piece of good news from auckland transit!!
nzherald.co.nz
Contactless payments for Auckland public transport rides to start Sunday
The new card readers will accept Apple and Google Pay, debit cards and most credit cards.
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Sacha @sachadylan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
"Just over a week ago, one question was front and centre at a foreign investor forum in Thailand: If your country is so great, why is everybody leaving?" (paywalled)
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
In the article Ana Sarić, says when she lived in NZ "we’d leave [home] in the dark and then get home in the dark, & it wasn’t a good thing, we were eating takeaways and we were just like ‘I’m over this’.” But in Japan “it’s so cheap ... a one-bedroom apartment is [$661] a month, & I live in Tokyo.”
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Why would investors choose NZ when Kiwis are leaving? Column for BusinessDesk this morning explores why housing policies are driving people & investment away. businessdesk.co.nz/article/opin...
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Character before people, NZers head for the exit
Just over a week ago, one question was front and centre at a foreign investor forum in Thailand: If your country is so great, why is everybody leaving?The answe...
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Economist mag says cost of meeting carbon emissions goals less than 1% of global GDP, which it thinks is “probably still an overestimate”. “Not peanuts, but not an unaffordable pipe dream, either,” it says. www.economist.com/interactive/...
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The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances
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dileepafonseka.bsky.social @dileepafonseka.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Some farmers not happy Fonterra selling its consumer brands. Geoff Crawford: “I've heard Miles on the radio being interviewed saying that we're not good at it [the brands] … He should either be sacked or get somebody who is good at it.” businessdesk.co.nz/article/prim...
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Farmers to bend Fonterra management’s ear over consumer sale
Fonterra’s farmer-owners will get the chance to grill the dairy giant’s leaders this week after it revealed a full sale or an initial public offerin...
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