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Business confidence is at its lowestlevel in about a decade. But are things really as bad as they seem? Photo / Getty Images

Building confidence: Can we turn around the economic gloom?

14 Oct, 2019 5:00am

7 minutes to read

Re-elected Auckland City mayor Phil Goff, with his dog Belle, on his rural Property in Clevedon. Photo / Jason Oxenham

Simon Wilson: Phil Goff's spring awakening

Phil Goff is happy to have won a mandate to continue, but will he make much progress?

Scotland's Fraser Brown and Finn Russell look on. Photo / Getty

Chris Rattue: All Blacks paranoia needs to end

COMMENT: Spare us the World Cup tears and silly claims, and try get your house in order.

Ecoroll co-founders James Calver (left) and Alex Magaraggia. Photo / Supplied

How this Kiwi company plans to 'revolutionise' the toilet paper industry

Ecoroll joins a growing list of start-ups tapping into the subscription space.

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Rugby World Cup

It's playoffs time. Photos / Photosport

Our Rugby World Cup quarter-final predictions

14 Oct, 2019 9:30am

The Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match-ups - form guide and predictions.

Wales' Ken Owens leave the field after he was given a yellow card during the Rugby World Cup Pool D game between Wales and Fiji in Oita. Photo / AP

Wynne Gray: The problem spoiling the World Cup for Japan

14 Oct, 2019 5:00am

COMMENT: Japan's hosting of World Cup has been excellent, but one thing letting them down.

Japan players celebrate victory. Photo / Getty

Liam Napier: Brilliant Japan inspire in a game for the ages

14 Oct, 2019 5:00am

COMMENT: Scenes such as this stir sporting emotions like few others.

Scotland's Fraser Brown and Finn Russell look on. Photo / Getty

Chris Rattue: All Blacks paranoia needs to end

13 Oct, 2019 5:00pm

COMMENT: Spare us the World Cup tears and silly claims, and try get your house in order.

World Cup tournament director Alan Gilpin. Photo / Photosport

Phil Gifford: Hopeless World Rugby and the biggest challengers to the ABs

13 Oct, 2019 2:00pm

COMMENT: Seven talking points from a crazy Rugby World Cup week.

Marika Koroibete races to the tryline in Australia's win over Georgia. Photo / Getty Images

Liam Napier: The sad reality about the Wallabies

13 Oct, 2019 6:00am

COMMENT: A quarter-final exit would accurately reflect where Australia's game sits.

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The best from our global partners

Greta Thunberg's influence grows as activist speaks to several thousand people at a climate strike rally in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Why middle-aged men hate Greta Thunberg

Financial Times: Guilt-tripped by a teenager is too close to home for plenty of parents

Blogs cannot tell you what to do with your career

New York Times: I'm wildly unsatisfied with my work and need to find a new job.

Levi Strauss insists it only wants investors focused on the long term. Photo / 123RF

Levi Strauss bets moral mission can survive public markets

Financial Times: Levi Strauss insists it only wants investors focused on the long term.

Bayer's disastrous acquisition of Monsanto gave it exposure to a string of lawsuits from people alleging its weedkiller gave them cancer. Photo / 123RF

Why the German stock market keeps shrugging off bad news

Financial Times: Dax benchmark rises despite gloomy economic data and woes of Germany Inc.

Carnaval preparations in Santiago de Cuba. Photo / Todd Heisler

The sound of Cuba

New York Times: On a road trip across the island, music is everywhere.

WeWork has been burning through the cash it raised in the private market. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

WeWork chases new financing as cash crunch looms

Financial Times: JPMorgan Chase leads race to complete deal before end of November

Apple said the HKMap.live app was being 'used maliciously'. Photo / AP

Apple faces China crunch as profits and values clash

Financial Times: CEO denies kowtowing to Beijing over app used by Hong Kong protesters.

Zeinab Sahafi watching the qualifying match between Iran and Cambodia in a nearly empty cafe in Istanbul. Photo / Danielle Villasana, The New York Times

An Iranian soccer fan's dream comes true without her

New York Times: Zeinab Sahafi spent years disguising herself as a man to slip into games.

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. Photo / AP

Comment | Luckily, Trump is an unstable non-genius

New York Times: His mental deficiencies may save American democracy.

Business

President Donald Trump speaks at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. Photo / AP

Liam Dann: Did Trump just win the trade war? (Spoiler alert: no)

Trump is hailing a great trade deal but in the real world analysts see an uneasy truce.

The Airlander takes you close enough to see whales in the water below. Photo / Hybrid Air Vehicles Facebook

Would you pay $125,000 for this luxury flight?

Financial Times: "A flying five-star hotel", with polar bears and whales lingering below.

At Jeffrey Epstein's Manhattan mansion in 2011, from left: James E. Staley, Lawrence Summers; Epstein; Bill Gates and Boris Nikolic. Photo / Handout via The New York Times

Bill Gates met with Jeffrey Epstein many times, despite his past

New York Times: Investigation reveals Gates had closer relationship than previously known.

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Politics

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has fallen 10.6 percentage points in the preferred Prime Minister stakes in last night's Newshub-Reid Research poll. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Comment | 2020 contest tightens with Labour's slide, but it's still in prime position

A poll showing Labour crashing 10 per cent is more indicative that the last one was rogue

Labour's biggest problem is that it's almost wholly reliant on the personal popularity of Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Mark Mitchell

David Cormack: The winding paths to power

If you look deeper at poll numbers, a different story begins to emerge.

Kirsten Wise, the new Mayor of Napier, broke new ground with her election campaign. Photo / Paul Taylor

For one council, voting isn't over yet

For one council at least, the voting isn't over yet.

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Sport

It's playoffs time. Photos / Photosport

Our Rugby World Cup quarter-final predictions

The Rugby World Cup quarterfinal match-ups - form guide and predictions.

Wales' Ken Owens leave the field after he was given a yellow card during the Rugby World Cup Pool D game between Wales and Fiji in Oita. Photo / AP

Wynne Gray: The problem spoiling the World Cup for Japan

COMMENT: Japan's hosting of World Cup has been excellent, but one thing letting them down.

Japan players celebrate victory. Photo / Getty

Liam Napier: Brilliant Japan inspire in a game for the ages

COMMENT: Scenes such as this stir sporting emotions like few others.

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The Big Read

HM Queen Elizabeth II with her maids of honour, Green Drawing Room, Buckingham palace, June 2, 1953. Lady Anne Coke (now Lady Glenconner) is second from left.

Inside story: Queen's coronation and hedonism - life as a royal lady-in-waiting

Before The Crown's next series, a player in real-life royal sagas pens her own life story.

Is Finance Minister Grant Robertson putting pride ahead of what is good for the country? Photo / Mark Mitchell

Political Roundup: Why isn't the Govt using its super surplus for doing good?

Robertson's dogged protection of his fiscal settings looked even more absurd this week.

Bay of Plenty couple Kahu and Robin Grace have been foster parents at an Oranga Tamariki family home in Tauranga for six years. Photo / Andrew Warner

'I'm not afraid of crying': Couple step up to help 140 Kiwi kids

Robin and Kahu Grace have looked after other people's kids for six years.

The Bessa family, including dad Ricardo and mum Terri, with children, from left, Penelope, 2, Ava-Faith, 7, and Isla-Lucia, 4. Photo / Andrew Warner

Am I losing my mind? Managing your memory in an age of rising dementia and forgetfulness

Are you losing your mind or ageing normally? How to tell the difference.

Weta Digital created the 23-year-old Will Smith clone known as Junior in Gemini Man. Photo / Supplied

Deepfakes: Weta helping Hollywood create the perfect digital human

Financial Times: Weta is the leading effects studio pioneering deepfake technology.

Carnaval preparations in Santiago de Cuba. Photo / Todd Heisler

The sound of Cuba

New York Times: On a road trip across the island, music is everywhere.

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National

Janeen Ladd has terminal cancer and was moved from a private hospital room to a

Cancer patient moved from private hospital room to make way for inmate

Furious partner speaks out after cancer patient pushed from her room for prison inmate.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has fallen 10.6 percentage points in the preferred Prime Minister stakes in last night's Newshub-Reid Research poll. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Comment | 2020 contest tightens with Labour's slide, but it's still in prime position

A poll showing Labour crashing 10 per cent is more indicative that the last one was rogue

Labour's biggest problem is that it's almost wholly reliant on the personal popularity of Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Mark Mitchell

David Cormack: The winding paths to power

If you look deeper at poll numbers, a different story begins to emerge.

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World

President Trump has openly pined for Fox News's

Fox News is Trump's chief TV booster. So why is he griping about it?

New York Times: Is there a crack in the alliance between Trump and his favourite network?

James Comey plans to spend the next 13 months working to drive President Trump from power. Photo / tRyan Christopher Jones, The New York Times

James Comey would like to help end Trump's presidency

New York Times: Comey has pledged to work to drive Trump from power.

Children at the Kurdish-run Al Hol detention camp in northern Syria in March. Some 70,000 people have been living in increasingly dire conditions there. Photo / Ivor Prickett, The New York Times

The Kurds' prisons and detention camps for Isis members, explained

New York Times: Custody of captive Isis fighters in doubt. Here's what you need to know.

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Lifestyle

How to cope with turning 50

Financial Times: " 'Looking old is bad, but feeling old is worse."

Celebrating turning one year older has always seemed very odd to me. 123RF

Lee Suckling: The problem with adult birthdays

This past weekend, I had my first birthday party in more than three decades.

Sidney (far right) has returned to ballet at the age of 70. Photo / Supplied

Why, as a 70yo man, I took up ballet lessons

Is it possible ballet isn't only for lean, tiny, little people who look cute in leotards?

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Entertainment

The photo that sparked the controversy. Photo / Supplied

Ellen, George Bush and the evolving dynamics of celebrity politics

Washington Post: What began with an unexpected photo became full-fledged ethical debacle.

Billy Connolly. Photo / Getty Images

Billy Connolly opens up on life with Parkinson's, six years on

Parkinson's convinced Billy Connolly to retire, now he reveals how he's coping.

Celebrated Austrian composer HK Gruber.

Philosopher Symphony outplays monster score

NZ Symphony Orchestra praised for adventurous programming but it fails to truly fire.

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Travel

As New Zealanders, we like to embarrass ourselves overseas in ways unique to us. Photo / 123RF

Matt Heath: Kiwis are an embarrassing bunch overseas

COMMENT: We like to shoehorn in New Zealand chat wherever we can.

Mandala.The Bay by M.Group on Indonesia's Nusa Lembongan island. Photo / Supplied

Life on the rocks in Bali

Sarah Downs laps up luxury, cocktails and easy-going adventure in Bali's southern coast.

The new Riverside Market in Christchurch.

Christchurch back on the market

A rundown on Christchurch's new 'place to be' plus other markets worth visiting.

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Crime

Janeen Ladd has terminal cancer and was moved from a private hospital room to a

Cancer patient moved from private hospital room to make way for inmate

Furious partner speaks out after cancer patient pushed from her room for prison inmate.

More than 500 criminals have breached Extended Supervision Orders since 2014. Photo / Doug Sherring

Revealed: 510 dangerous criminals breach court orders after prison release

More than 500 dangerous criminals have breached supervision orders since 2014.

Danny Leef captured on CCTV trying to use the credit card belonging to Shevaughn Johnstone that he stole from her after she crashed her car in Papakura in November 2017. Photo / Supplied

Editorial: Name suppression fight not taken up lightly

Editorial: Cloak of secrecy must not be provided to offenders when it is not merited.

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Education

Alexandra Thompson, from Sacred Heart, is flying high as one of this year's young achievers. Photo / Bruce Jenkins

Spirit of Napier Lions Club young achievers: The 10 students who won

Ten inspired students receive Spirit of Napier Lions Young Achievers awards.

MP Lawrence Yule speaking during the meeting. Photo / Laura Wiltshire

The Government v Elsthorpe: Tiny community fights for its school bus

Elsthorpe kids may be forced to go to CHB schools rather than Havelock North.

The parents of Sophia Crestani are preparing for a private funeral for the 19-year-old, who died at a party on Saturday night. Photo / Supplied

Studies, parties and drink: a deadly culture

Dunedin house-party tragedy raises questions about city's - and NZ's - drinking culture.

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Health

Janeen Ladd has terminal cancer and was moved from a private hospital room to a

Cancer patient moved from private hospital room to make way for inmate

Furious partner speaks out after cancer patient pushed from her room for prison inmate.

The Bessa family, including dad Ricardo and mum Terri, with children, from left, Penelope, 2, Ava-Faith, 7, and Isla-Lucia, 4. Photo / Andrew Warner

Am I losing my mind? Managing your memory in an age of rising dementia and forgetfulness

Are you losing your mind or ageing normally? How to tell the difference.

Jack Sprat wouldn't touch this, so why do so many Kiwis think it's a regular meal choice? Photo / Doug Sherring

Editorial: How to curb our enthusiasm for sugar and fat?

We say: The message needs to get across that our poor diets have drastic consequences.

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Cartoons

October 12. Illustration / Rod Emmerson

Cartoons: Week of October 7 - 13

October 5. Illustration / Rod Emmerson

Cartoons: Week of September 30 - October 6

September 28. Illustration / Rod Emmerson

Cartoons: Week of September 23 - 29

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The Last Word

Japan players celebrate victory. Photo / Getty

Liam Napier: Brilliant Japan inspire in a game for the ages

14 Oct, 2019 2:16am

4 minutes to read

Wynne Gray: The problem spoiling the World Cup for Japan

Liam Dann: Is it time to bring back finance companies?

Phil Gifford: Hopeless World Rugby and the biggest challengers to the ABs

Mary Holm: Don't get down about low interest rates

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Few care about council elections

Kerre McIvor: How Simon is building Bridges

Niki Bezzant: The truth about red and processed meat

Matt Heath: Kiwis are an embarrassing bunch overseas

Scotland's Fraser Brown and Finn Russell look on. Photo / Getty

Chris Rattue: All Blacks paranoia needs to end

COMMENT: Spare us the World Cup tears and silly claims, and try get your house in order.

Mayor Phil Goff is all smiles at the Kingslander pub on election day. Photo / Sylvie Whinray

Simon Wilson: What's Goff going to do now?

12 Oct, 2019 7:00pm

Goff has a mandate to push on with his programme. But will he get the help he needs?

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