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Business and finance in New Zealand, with an emphasis on investment opportunities and movements in the kiwi dollar.
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Kiwis flocking to Australia
The following AAP article, dated November 12, 2009, gives background information: Australia should shut the door to thousands of New Zealanders to help stabilise the nation's population at 26 million by 2050, federal Labor backbencher Kelvin Thomson ...
Penguins seek global warming asylum
The following article, from NZPA, is dated November 19, 2009:Four icebergs sighted off the Auckland Islands, 400km south of Bluff, are slowly heading toward New Zealand. Expedition leader on the tourist ship Spirit of Enderby, Rodney Russ said it was...
Things look up for dairy farmers
The depiction of smalltown New Zealand in the above cartoon, from the Manawatu Standard of November 12, 2009, is anachronistic. It shows what small towns looked like in the late 19th century. But in stressing the importance, in such rural towns, of d...
John Key and the national debt
As transTasman noted on October 15, 2009:Finance Minister Bill English who returned at the weekend from London, reports Aust and NZ are “flavour of the month” with overseas investment markets which see the two countries coming out of the recessio...
\'Pay freeze in employees\' best interests\'
Cartoon from the Manawatu Standard of October 21, 2009.The article below, dated October 19, 2009, is a "joint media release" headlined "$29m Tui profit justifies pay freeze – Yeah right" from scoop.co.nz:Tui workers in Timaru and Greymouth are givi...
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