Business commentator Pattrick Smellie talks about the "political" decision to end the traffic light system and whether it was inevitable, once the public's will to be compliant was gone.
And he'll look at the Todd Corporation's mega projects in Western Australia and Louisiana... as always, it's notoriously quiet about its projects, but developments in the public domain give a good indication of where the company representing New Zealand's wealthiest family is heading.
Pattrick Smellie is the editor and co-founder of BusinessDesk and has reported on the New Zealand economy and business since 1983.
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