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Eradicating the COVID-19 is the best economic strategy

Brendan Coates, Grattan Institute and Jonathan Nolan, Grattan Institute Less than a month after restrictions first took effect, Australia appears to have contained the spread of COVID-19 more successfully than we could have possibly imagined. But we’ve done so at unimaginable cost: large swathes of the economy have been shut down, leaving the livelihoods of millions of Australians on hold …

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Crowdsourced: upcoming webinars for NZ business

Tim McCready has been crowdsourcing a list of upcoming webinars relevant for NZ business. Many of these have been created to give advice to business and fill the gap that has been left without face-to-face events. The spreadsheet can be freely edited if you are aware of a webinar that should be included in the list.

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Tim Groser: The future of global trade: US and NZ as partners in the asia pacific: completing the TPP negotiation

Tim Groser addresses the US/NZ Partnership Forum in Auckland, 30 June 2015. Full speech provided below. I would like to thank our two co-chairs, the Hon Simon Power, Chair of the NZ-US Council and Stu Van Soyoc, President of the US-based counterpart organisation for assuming joint responsibility for the Partnership Forum. I think it is a great idea for us …

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