Gareth Morgan says his just-announced political party will appeal to “anyone who cares about New Zealand and not just themselves,” suggesting this rules out ACT Party supporters.

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Gareth Morgan decided to launch a political party while on the road to Damascus, he tells NBR Radio’s Grant Walker.

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Insurance has traditionally been a conservative industry but technology changes over the next decade will disrupt the global sector – and the car insurance industry could disappear altogether, a local academic predicts.

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9 Spokes [ASX: 9SP] has launched its black label platform in the UK while shifting its focus from development to sales and marketing.

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The latest fad to infest Wellington is “evidence-based” policy making. It follows hard on the heels of “market failure,” “stakeholder consultation” and “Treaty principles.”

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A new round of grants from the Crown-backed, $273 million Marsden Fund has just been released – and it has again riled the IT industry.

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There were six in the bed, and John Key said, “roll over, roll over! So they all rolled over and one fell out …”

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It was always going to happen; a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that doesn’t look like a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle.

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Murray McCully has been described as a political Houdini. And if this week’s Auditor-General report on his Saudi sheep deal is another miraculous getaway for the foreign minister, it also confirms that like the famed escape artist’s contortions it was only necessary because he first put himself in harm’s way.

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