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Kate MacNamara: What's the real cost of staying safe from Covid-19?

Cost benefit analysis finds that level 4 overtime wasn't worth it.

Comment: Governments shouldn't pick tourism favourites

Small tourism operators are missing out on millions in taxpayer money handed out by Govt.

Frances Sweetman: Smeltdown in the electricity sector

Sector directors face difficult decisions as excess demand looms to swallow dividends.

Craig Eliffe: NZ faces big tax questions but is targeting the wealthy the answer?

Green Party's proposed wealth tax raises important questions about the taxation system.

Juha Saarinen: Don't let kids hack their way into prison

That technology is creating a criminal class out of the young is something to worry about.

Bryce Wilkinson: The wrong direction for RMA reform

A real resource management act would focus on actual public good problems.

Brent Melville: Tech sector sets sights on tourism, dairy as top exporter

Top 200 tech sector companies generated revenue of $12.1b on the back of export markets.

Barry Colman: Don't economists read the news?

A satirical take on the response to Covid-19

Juha Saarinen: Garmin needs to explain cyber attack

Another week, another famous name falls prey to cyber attack.

Victoria Young: How director insurance post-Mainzeal has changed

Fewer insurers are providing director liability cover and the price has gone up.

Christopher Niesche: Battered Aussies eye NZ covid strategy

Thoughts of an economic recovery in Australia are a long way off.

Craig Hudson: How small businesses can get us through economic downturn

COMMENT: The recovery of small businesses is instrumental to NZ's economic recovery.

Sasha Borissenko: Inappropriate behaviour - We prefer to give it a pass

COMMENT: You have to question New Zealand's workplace culture.

Paul Spain: Making NZ a tech industry safe haven

COMMENT: Let's invite the world's leading technology firms to establish hubs here.

Liam Dann: Elections suck, but the stakes are too high to let it this time

Let's not let this election to be about scandal. We need economic transformation.

Oliver Mander: At The Warehouse, there's even more change in store

COMMENT: Reforms are driving good results, but it must keep investing in change.