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1 month ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Dileepa Fonseka |Maria Slade |Simon Robertson |Rachael Judge
If one thing tells you how far along New Zealand has pushed its relationship with India, it’s the jokes.When Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke at the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi, he joked about the cricket rivalry between the two countries, and India’s Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar laughed along. Rewind to 2022, and the NZ-India relationship was so poor that it was fodder for a more pointed joke from Jaishankar at NZ’s expense.“New Zealand and India have a great relationship.
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1 month ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Maria Slade |Simon Robertson |Rachael Judge |Peter Griffin
The Awakeri Wetlands is a long-term project to turn peaty, flood-prone former farmland at Takanini, in Auckland’s south, into sites suitable for housing.At the opening of the first stage in November 2020, the council-run Our Auckland website reported that the wetland channel was much more than a large-scale piece of stormwater infrastructure; it was a re-creation of an ancient kauri swamp.This is clearly a great public asset of high ecological value, and given the $100 million-plus project is...
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1 month ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Simon Robertson |Rachael Judge |Peter Griffin |Cameron Bagrie
Conundrum (noun): A confusing or difficult problem or question that often seems to have no clear solution. Frank Herbert, the author of Dune, once said, “The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” The situationWe have a storm brewing in Silicon Valley, and I keep trying to form views on how it will end and who the winners and losers will be. It’s all going to be great ultimately, but there will be an enormous amount of capital vaporised during the journey.
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1 month ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Michael Neilson |Rachael Judge |Ian Llewellyn |Greg Hurrell
Former school lunch providers are accusing new contractor Compass Group of not fulfilling its legal obligations to hundreds of former employees classed as “vulnerable workers”. The providers are also accusing the Government of not clearly outlining the employee rights and obligations to Compass, which won the national contract for the new cut-price programme as part of The School Lunch Collective, including Gilmours and Libelle.
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1 month ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Rachael Judge |Ian Llewellyn |Greg Hurrell
With the flurry of upcoming legislative changes in the employment space, a seemingly minor change to the Crimes Act 1961 may have passed under the radar for many employers.
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | John Anthony |Greg Hurrell |Rachael Judge
Heineken-owned liquor giant DB Breweries has pulled a Tui “yeah right” ad about Golriz Ghahraman after it attracted 42 complaints to New Zealand’s advertising watchdog and highlighted concerns about bullying, misogyny and racism.The Tui Facebook ad was headed with the small text “We reckon the world’s got too damn serious”. In larger font, the ad said, “Surely she wouldn’t shoplift again, Yeah right.” followed by the Tui logo."Bullying" The ad was in reference to allegations f...
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Simon Robertson |Rachael Judge |Peter Griffin |David Chaplin
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. It's named after two Cornell University psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, who first described it in a 1999 paper.The basic premise is that unskilled individuals lack the expertise to recognise their own lack of skill. This overestimation arises from a failure to recognise the qualitative differences between their performance and that of others.
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Michael Neilson |Rachael Judge |Peter Griffin |David Chaplin
Speak to an Indonesian politician about New Zealand, and it won’t be rugby, sheep or milk powder but geothermal power they want to talk about. This connection stems from one of NZ’s largest aid projects: partnering to build Indonesia’s first geothermal power plant, Kamojang, which opened in 1983. That investment – over $400 million in 2025 value – has grown into a focal point of diplomatic and economic relations with one of the world’s most populous nations. It also paved the way for NZ compani...
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Rachael Judge |Greg Hurrell |Maria Slade
In advising my clients through investigation processes, I am seeing things become increasingly litigious and difficult to get right.
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2 months ago | 
businessdesk.co.nz | Gregor Thompson |Maria Slade |John Anthony |Rachael Judge
New Zealand’s employer associations are eagerly awaiting Government plans to amend employee sick leave entitlements. The updated approach, which featured in a Holidays Act amendment draft bill agreed to by the Cabinet in September, is to adjust entitlements so that sick leave is proportionate to how much employees work.
