Here’s the main thing I learned about the new fifth generation Land Rover Discovery after a couple of days driving it through snow-covered mountains passes, along lonely highways, over rocks and the odd sand dune this past week.

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Emirates says it has carried more than one million passengers to and from New Zealand during 2016, citing the success of its daily non-stop service between Auckland and Dubai.

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The latest immigration statistics are good news. There’s nothing better than people wanting to come and live and work in your country. If it’s a problem, it’s a good one to have. Imagine the reverse. It’s only scary countries that build walls to keep people in, not out.

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One enduring legacy of “Il Duce” Benito Mussolini, fascist dictator of Italy between 1922 and 1943, is the myth that he made the trains run on time. Mussolini did not achieve this but the notion that he did has become a staple justification for authoritarianism.

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The head of New Zealand’s anti-corruption watchdog has urged the public to rethink its view of bribery — arguing that it should be punished “at least as hard as murder.”

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An audit tag on the accounts of Wellington Drive Technologies reflects its growing pains, director John McMahon says. The company, which makes advanced motors and wireless devices for commercial refrigeration, reported a $204,000 maiden operating profit this week and projected profitable growth, signalling a turnaround in its fortunes.

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Labour’s position has never been more desperate. New Zealand’s oldest political party has been in worse polling troughs before but not even in 1990 were things so bleak 200 days from an election.

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As a growing number of online businesses are starting to focus on lending to small businesses, one of the two leading Australasian accounting software providers, MYOB, has decided to take a piece of the action.

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Extra earnings information provided by CBL Corporation five days after its results release has earned it a ratings upgrade by an analyst. CBL released half-year results on February 24, with profit after tax in the year to December 31 down 14% to $30.7 million, and behind the $40.4 million forecast in its listing prospectus.

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New Zealand boards have a cultural gap rather than just a lack of gender balance, says Mavis Mullins, a fourth-generation sheep farmer who holds a number of private and public sector directorships.

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