Nevil Gibson's weekly travel roundup also includes the latest route announcements and codeshare deals.

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"Uh oh, it’s started. Prime Minister Jim Bolger famously took a moment out of his busy day to tell the All Blacks to pack their scrum lower."

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Michael Coote on how recent political and geological events will shape the economy

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Rob Hosking takes a philosophical look at the New Zealand political scene

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Matthew Hooton says Andrew Little is safe, for now

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Imagine a world where one company makes all the sausages. They are good sausages; the full range, but expensive.

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Luckily for people like me – property owners over the age of 45 – the young voters of today appear to have no idea or interest in how people like me are systematically undermining their futures for our own personal gain today.

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Hellaby Holdings says the sum-of-the-parts valuation methodology chosen by independent valuer Grant Samuel is absolutely appropriate.

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Pacific Edge says it has enough cash to continuing operating at its cost base for another 15 months and hopes to secure sufficient sales to break even before that cash runs out.

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For many kiwis, last Monday's shakes would have brought back chilling memories of the devastating 2011 Canterbury quake, which claimed the lives of 185 people. Has the government has taken some of the lessons from the 2011 quake on-board? NBR's Jason Walls speaks to:

- Institution of Professional Engineers NZ CEO Susan Freeman-Greene

- Niwa tsunami scientist Emily Lane

- Civil Defence’s Auckland head of strategy and planning Craig Glover

- Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee

- Government statistician Liz MacPherson

- Society for Earthquake Engineering president Peter Smith

- Insurance Council chief executive Tim Cook

- Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce chief executive Peter Townsend

- BusinessNZ chief executive Kirk Hope

- Federated Farmers president William Rolleston