“Who is our Donald Trump?”

It’s a question with which political pundits will bore voters over the 10 months to New Zealand’s election.

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The New Zealand Herald’s John Roughan wrote this week: “The amazing thing about democracy, when you stop to think about, is that it makes the right decision far more often than not.”

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Of all the possible twists in this most serpentine of news weeks, perhaps the most superficially striking of all is that even if it were to emerge in the media that Donald Trump personally engineered the deaths of Leonard Cohen and Marti Friedlander and orchestrated the earthquakes, news consumers would probably not bat an eyelid.

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The central banks of Australia and New Zealand have taken noticeably different views on housing market risks.

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Disgruntled Veritas Investments shareholders fired a salvo of questions over poor performance and the tanking share price for the group, which includes the Mad Butcher, Nosh, and Better Bar Company brands, at today's annual meeting in Auckland.

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Genesis Energy’s [NZX: GNE] plan to buy the Kupe oil and gas field is a relatively good one but does have its risks, an analyst says.

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Greenpeace has New Zealand’s rural sector seeing red over its latest advertising campaign, which accuses farmers of polluting New Zealand rivers.

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Confusion reigns in Wellington about why some reasonably new buildings were badly damaged in this week's earthquakes while old buildings stood up.

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Steel & Tube is already seeing signs that demand for its products will increase in the wake of the severe earthquake which shook the top of the South Island and Wellington early this week.

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The sale of its 15% Kupe stake to Genesis Energy could be the beginning of the end for New Zealand Oil & Gas.

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