Dileepa Fonseka
Senior Correspondent at BusinessDesk
Senior correspondent for @Businessdesk_nz. Voyager Business Journalist of the Year finalist 2023. Ex-press gallery for @NewsroomNZ & ex-@NZStuff
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3 days ago |
businessdesk.co.nz | Dileepa Fonseka
A University of Auckland academic says the results from a wikisurvey released last week were never portrayed as representative of the opinions of all Aucklanders.Auckland at 15 – a grouping including the Committee for Auckland, Auckland University of Technology, Deloitte and the Helen Clark Foundation – released a wikisurvey canvassed through the platform Pol.is to produce a series of results.
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4 days ago |
businessdesk.co.nz | Dileepa Fonseka
Something rather unexpected happened at one point during Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s pre-budget speech in Auckland last week: silence.The BusinessNZ audience ran out of questions for him, and they’d asked only two.Perhaps they had wised up to the fact that politicians can’t say much before a Budget.Alternatively, maybe the business community is finally moving out of the covid-era mode of always waiting to see what the Government does before making their moves.Or maybe they didn’t ask...
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6 days ago |
businessdesk.co.nz | Dileepa Fonseka
On The Money is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.On the Money has a sliver of sympathy for the country’s company directors.
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1 week ago |
businessdesk.co.nz | Dileepa Fonseka
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says Government initiatives to "develop talent and promote competitive business settings" will feature prominently in the upcoming Budget. Luxon appeared at the Pullman Hotel in Auckland on Thursday to deliver a speech setting the scene for the upcoming Budget – now a fortnight away.
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1 week ago |
businessdesk.co.nz | Dileepa Fonseka
Questions have been raised about an agenda-setting survey released at a high-profile event on Wednesday, including whether it lived up to the standard of the University of Auckland's brand.A survey conducted by the university's Complex Conversations Lab was released yesterday by the Committee for Auckland at an event at the central Auckland offices of Deloitte.The release of its findings marked the Super City at 15 years and was quoted as a "major new survey" in The Post and as "a major...
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