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Hot Topics: Budget 2013 | Unitary plan

Greens suggest 15% surcharge on foreign house buyers

Russel Norman (TVNZ)
NBR staff | Sunday May 19, 2013

Breakfast in schools: it just doesn't work

Often it doesn't increase the odds that kids eat breakfast at all (TV3)
Eric Crampton | WEEKEND REVIEW | 66 comments

GUEST COMMENT: Studies show no great benefit from public funding, such as the programme our government is poised to unveil in a fortnight.

Technology: An Alternative Budget

Rod Drury
Rod Drury | WEEKEND REVIEW | 22 comments

GUEST COMMENT Budget 2013 makes good progress in reducing New Zealand's debt, but lacks the big ideas for driving growth. Here are 10:

NBR People Scene

David White and Sarah Stuart at the Canon Media Awards
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Latest photo galleries from Norrie Montgomery.

Google Glass 'makes you look like a complete dork'

Kepes: that certain sartorial inelegance
Chris Keall | WEEKEND REVIEW | 6 comments

At the Google's I/O conference in San Francisco, Christchurch man Ben Kepes raises satorial concerns about the search giant's smart glasses - and discusses privacy concerns raised by Congress.

Aaron Gilmore debacle put Budget at risk

Matthew Hooton
Matthew Hooton | WEEKEND REVIEW | 2 comments

UPDATED with table.

Confessions of a former leftie

Rodney Hide
Rodney Hide | WEEKEND REVIEW | 38 comments

HIDESIGHT I believed people couldn’t be left alone to do as they please: they were too greedy, the market too capricious, resources too precious and the planet too fragile.

Meridian IPO needs to be 'clean' to fly

Woodward Partners' senior equity analyst Nick Lewis
David Williams | WEEKEND REVIEW | 2 comments

Investors will be looking for certainty from the state-owned power company's IPO. The hot issues:

Honda Accord NT: why the old Euro should be dropped

The stylish new Honda Accord NT
David Linklater | WEEKEND REVIEW | 1 comment

MOTORING This is a tale of two Honda Accords.

CAR TORQUE: Ford Ecosport for Kiwis after all

The Ford Ecosport will be made in India
David Linklater | WEEKEND REVIEW

ALSO Good news, bad news for VF Commodore | Meanwhile, Malibu crashes

What you can learn tracking the 'digital history' of a property listing

Alistair Helm | WEEKEND REVIEW | 3 comments

Here's a real-life example of a recent property I have tracked for sale in Auckland. It's a tale of sale price expectation that runs ahead of the market - something that's endemic in Auckland.

NBR TOP PROPERTIES: Auckland vs Wellington

Victoria Young | WEEKEND REVIEW

Here’s the best of the best in Wellington and Auckland, from $1 million-plus homes to CBD apartments to city-fringe retreats.

The importance of sales volume trends in the property market

Alistair Helm
Alistair Helm | WEEKEND REVIEW | 1 comment

Sales are up, they are slightly stronger and yet they were down!

Resale of digital music may infringe copyright

Earl Gray
Earl Gray | WEEKEND REVIEW | 5 comments

GUEST COMMENT: For anyone planning to resell their downloaded digital music, the Capitol Records LLCv ReDigi Inc decision in the US may leave a ringing in your ears.

Xero and Vend big winners at NZ Hi-Tech Awards 2013

Vend CEO Vaughan Roswell
NBR staff | Saturday May 18, 2013 | 1 comment

Carry On: News for business travellers

First A350XWB emerges
Nevil Gibson | WEEKEND REVIEW

Airbus A350 unveiled | Tahiti revamps business class | Swiss returns to Changi | Air NZ adds Nouméa, drops Osaka

Two new films on the problems of Israel

The Other Son
John Daly-Peoples | WEEKEND REVIEW

Coming up next month are two films which deal with social, political and personal issues of living in Israel.

War Witch: a brutal tale of child soldiers in Africa

John Daly-Peoples | WEEKEND REVIEW

War Witch is an extraordinary African tale of 14-year-old Komona, who is plucked from her village by local freedom fighters.

Auckland Triennial: If You Were To See Art Here

Michael Lin and Atelier Bow-Wow, with Andrew Barrie, Model House
John Daly-Peoples | WEEKEND REVIEW

Nearly 50 artists from a dozen countries feature in the fifth triennial, which focuses on the way we think about, and adapt to, our living environments.

When a construction contract is also a security interest

Hamish Foote | WEEKEND REVIEW

GUEST COMMENT: The High Court this week clarified another piece of the wreckage from Mainzeal’s collapse.

Reserve Bank will explain before using new asset bubble tools

Tina Morrison | Friday May 17, 2013 | 3 comments

There will be consultation with banks in coming weeks on adding details of the policy into its Banking Supervision Handbook.

Market close: shares fall, Nuplex hurt by Aussie downturn

Friday May 17, 2013 | 1 comment

Turnover of $247m included Quadrant Private Equity's sale of 14% of Summerset Group for about $89m.

ASK ME ANYTHING: Grant Thornton budget special

L-R: Martin Gray, Murray Brewer and Paul Kane
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Chris Keall | WEEKEND REVIEW | 41 comments

Judge Jock: The Non-Appearing Judge, More Flee Ghost Ship Chancery and Judge Deals To Defaming Complainer

Judge Jock
Jock Anderson | WEEKEND REVIEW

A budding Asia Pacific region sprints ahead

The Asia Pacific region
Nathan Smith | WEEKEND REVIEW | 1 comment

COMMENT The state of the Asia Pacific region is a mix of worrisome stories and heartening tales.

BRIEFCASE: ‘Questionable legal behaviour,’ depression, TV’s Harry and more

John Bowie | WEEKEND REVIEW

NBR Weekly Biz Quiz

What does she think is stingy?
NBR staff | WEEKEND REVIEW

Test your knowlege with 10 rapid-fire multichoice questions.

NBR Business Pulse

Was the government right to shelve the MMP review (which recommended a 4% threshold, and abolishing the coat-tail rule)?
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