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| Matthew Hooton | WEEKEND REVIEW | 20 comments

Peters promises to buy back power companies; say's it's a coalition bottom-line

Green Party says it’s time to reform the Reserve Bank Act

NBR Staff | Sunday March 16, 2014 | 3 comments

Wheeler: Why we're hiking interest rates

Formula One reboots

Chris Keall | WEEKEND REVIEW

A behind-the-scenes visit to Red Bull Racing the team prepares for the first race of the F1 season, the Melbourne Grand Prix - and radical new rules that include hybrid engines. (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Peters promises to buy back power companies; says it's a coalition bottom-line

NBR Staff | Saturday March 15, 2014 | 23 comments

PLUS: New policy for the "New Zealandisation" of fishing.

Flight MH370: Pilots under scrutiny

NBR Staff | Sunday March 16, 2014

Malaysian PM's comments, US intelligence leaks spark speculation. PLUS: UK's Mail on Sunday reports pilot attended opposition leader's trial just hours before flight.

Missing flight’s communications systems were ‘disabled’ (FT.com)

Govt doing all it can for households hit by interest rates rises - English

NBR Staff | Sunday March 16, 2014 | 2 comments

Len Brown says ratepayers want him to get on with the job of being Auckland’s mayor

NBR Staff | Sunday March 16, 2014 | 14 comments

Business lessons from Formula One

Chris Keall | WEEKEND REVIEW

Ahead of a talk in Auckland, neuroscientist Dr Kerry Spackman talks about translating what he learned in Formula One and All Black Rugby into everyday advice - including an online audit. Plus, his Einstein movie in the works.

Cunliffe peddles foreign ownership myths

Jamie Whyte | Saturday March 15, 2014 | 42 comments

GUEST OPINION: Many on the political Left complain about foreign ownership of New Zealand businesses on the ground that the profits are “sent overseas”. This is a foolish misunderstanding.

Election 2014 fact-checker: Labour's 'worse than Muldoon' debt claim

"Your argument would fall over if we look at a historical situation like our banking system being owned or sold to Australian banks"

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NBR People Scene: E! Pop of Culture Party at Mantells on the Water

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Latest photo galleries from Norrie Montgomery.

LVR impact is significant and growing

Alistair Helm | WEEKEND REVIEW

Dress for success - presenting a property ready to sell

SFO boss on bushfires, James Hardie and that unplanned court splash

David Williams | WEEKEND REVIEW

Julie Read has a shaky start for someone who came into the job last October with an ethic of keeping her head down.

Building the business case for gender and diversity in the workplace

Stephanie Flores | WEEKEND REVIEW | 5 comments

Opinion: What will Key tell the Chinese about Fonterra?

Jamie Ball | WEEKEND REVIEW | 1 comment

As Miyamoto Musashi, the famed 16th Century Japanese swordsman, put it, “You win battles by knowing the enemy's timing, and using a timing which the enemy does not expect.”

A Green policy with some merit

David Farrar | WEEKEND REVIEW | 8 comments

$200 million in new transport infrastructure so kids can cycle.

Discounting Cycling (Eric Crampton)

"Kids from low decile schools have no trouble walking - they have no other option"

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NBR People Scene: Diamond Day at Ellerslie

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Latest photo galleries from Norrie Montgomery.

The zeitgeist of Mazda’s sixth age

David Linklater | WEEKEND REVIEW

'C' is for competition - The ABC of Economic Literacy

WEEKEND REVIEW | 1 comment

How politics avoids the big questions

Rodney Hide | WEEKEND REVIEW

ASK ME ANYTHING: Jamie Whyte - UPDATED

The Sea: the struggle to survive

John Daly-Peoples | WEEKEND REVIEW

You should probably always read the programme notes for theatre productions.They often explain things which are not necessarily clear on stage. But of course to read the programme notes they need to be legible in the half light of the theatre.