Six years ago, a newly qualified pensioner, a 65-year-old who was still working, sent their first superannuation cheque back to the government.

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The Reserve Bank says it’s taking a neutral bias toward the future of interest rates; others say it’s a copout.

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The bill that would replace four acts applying to this country’s security and intelligence agencies and their oversight bodies has arrived back from select committee appraisal with many amendments – but still with trenchant criticism.

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The Washington Post is reporting US Attorney General Jeff Sessions had conversations during the campaign with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which he didn't disclose during his confirmation hearings.

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The "LookSee" campaign to fill tech job vacancies in Wellington has gone viral.

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One of Synlait Milk’s customers, A2 Milk, is replacing another customer, Netherlands-based FrieslandCampina, as an 8.2% shareholder but it’s difficult to see whether anything else will change as a result.

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A new set of tax proposals, which would close loopholes on multinational firms' tax, has been welcomed by experts but one is warning there is a risk the proposals could “go overboard.”

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Fonterra Co-operative Group is considering options for allowing overseas suppliers to become co-operative members at some stage in the future.

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Shifts, mostly intangible but definitely perceptible, are under way as the political world hunkers down for Election 2017. The reaction to Prime Minister Bill English’s comments about drugs, the workplace, and the unemployment rate is one symptom.

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In their daily monastic duties, independent company valuers crouch at their desks constructing intricate financial mandalas – painstaking works used for a single transaction then thrown away. The practice symbolises the essential mutability of corporations – they change, they evolve, they pass through different hands, grow and disappear, like tadpoles in a boy’s bucket.

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