Mistrials are rare but happen for serious reasons, retired High Court judge David Harvey says.

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ANZ chief economist Cameron Bagrie says the RBNZ has torched the idea of an early OCR increase.

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NZ is looking pretty good right now. We’d look better if we could just keep dildos off our screens.

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Nevil Gibson finds commentators who say the Liberals have made a bold grab for Labor policies.

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Property Council boss Connal Townsend shocked at figures showing property is the country's biggest single industry.

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Deloitte's Scott McClay on South Island listed companies' rebound.

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PSA national secretary Erin Polaczuk wants the uncertainty regarding IRD workforce changes to be cleared up

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I've spent a few days recently in the Golden Bay area, which you will know is famed for whale strandings as well as balding baby boomers with pony tails. The strandings are largely due to navigation and follow-the-leader issues and might serve as a reminder for the media wallowing in despair over the recent Commerce Commission decision, nixing the proposed Fairfax/NZME merger.

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The Financial Markets Authority’s nine-month case against the men behind failed finance firms Viaduct Capital and Mutual Finance has been aborted, after the presiding judge declared a mistrial this morning. The lawyer for the Crown, Meredith Connell’s David Johnstone, tells NBR there has been an argument over the past several days about the late disclosure of information by the prosecution in the Auckland High Court case.

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A new approach to measuring housing affordability has been developed by the Ministry of Business to try and assist the government in making decisions on housing. However, it is likley to take some time before the results are up to date due to an 18-month lag on the data to start with.

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