News Round Up

Senior freelance journalist Pattrick Smellie has joined Good Returns as a regular columnist.

Pattrick will be writing a fortnightly column on issues affecting the financial services industry, particularly changes driven by Government.

He has written over the years for the Sunday Star-Times, The Australian, the Christchurch Press, the Independent Business Weekly, The Dominion and NBR. From 1985 to early 1988, he was a press secretary to the then Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas, was chairman of the Parliamentary Press Gallery 1995-97 and in 1997/98 spent a year in the US on a Harkness Fellowship.

He was previously National Affairs Editor at the Sunday Star-Times.