Our business leaders remain optimists at heart, which is a good thing. Business culture is at its best reflecting a determined belief that, when the right moves are made at the right time, we have reason to expect outcomes will be positive. The overwhelming majority of respondents in the 2013 Mood of The Boardroom survey indicated they see New Zealand as going forward over the next decade. Only a small minority felt New Zealand was slipping back.

What’s happening in the property market? Real estate commentator and properazzi website founder Alistair Helm talks to Chris Daniels about spring, new home loan rules and some of the issues around choosing to sell a property by auction.

Our business leaders remain optimists at heart, which is a good thing. Business culture is at its best reflecting a determined belief that, when the right moves are made at the right time, we have reason to expect outcomes will be positive. The overwhelming majority of respondents in the 2013 Mood of The Boardroom survey indicated they see New Zealand as going forward over the next decade. Only a small minority felt New Zealand was slipping back.

Television New Zealand, the state-owned broadcaster, lifted annual profit 1.4 per cent, slightly ahead of its 'Statement of Intent' forecast, though missed its target for revenue. In this video provided by TVNZ Jesse Mulligan from Seven Sharp talks to TVNZ Chairman Wayne Walden and CEO Kevin Kenrick about the companys FY2013 financial results.

As part of a move to take steam out of housing market, banks will soon be subject to tighter mortgage lending rules. Sam Shuttleworth, a banking partner at PwC, joined us in the studio to explain the changes.

Prime Minister John Key says the asset sales referendum will be an "utter waste of money" and the sales process could be completed before it is held. The petition is to be tabled in Parliament today, after which the Government will have a month to set a date for the referendum, or declare a postal referendum.

Mighty River Power shares rose nearly 2 per cent in early trading after announcing a profit well above prospectus forecasts and close to 70 per cent more than last year. Chairwoman Joan Withers said the shares had been hit by a " perfect confluence of elements" including ongoing uncertainty about fundamental changes to the electricity market promised by opposition political parties, increased interest rates paid on long term bonds and uncertainty about Tiwai Point aluminium smelter although recently there was now more clarity about demand by the country's biggest single electricity user. When the share market opened shares rose 4c to $2.23. The company said it will pay a final dividend of 7.2 cents a share on September 30 for those who hold shares on September 11.

Prime Minister John Key is interviewed by Leighton Smith from NewstalkZB on Friday 9th about the continuing Fonterra crisis.

Meridian Energy has resolved its negotiations with Rio Tinto subsidiary New Zealand Aluminium Smelters locking in the Tiwai smelter until at least January 2017 - with the help of a $30 million subsidy from the New Zealand government. The deal, which has been a year in the making, will help clear the way for Meridian's $5 billion float on the stock exchange - expected to go ahead before the end of the year.

Prime Minister John Key says he is prepared to fly to China if he needs to in the wake of the Fonterra whey contamination scandal. Chinese food regulators will be visiting New Zealand following the recent meat registration problem and the infant formula contamination would also be discussed, Mr Key said. "There will be ongoing dialogue and discussion between myself at a prime ministerial level and regulators in China over time.''

Prime Minister John Key comments on the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet head's offered resignation.

Prime Minister John Key said officials were working around the clock to provide certainty and clarification on the extent of the potential contamination.

Prime Minister John Key visited the Agroventures park whilst in Rotorua, speaking to the general Manager Peter Cossey about their relation alongside India and how that has helped expand their business & to help promote New Zealand as a destination.

Kiwis who have worked in Australia can now bring their superannuation back home, thanks to a new scheme called transtasman superannuation portability. Vedran Babic, operation manager at Fisher Funds, joined us in the studio to explain the changes.

Social data academic and consultant Dr Andreas Weigend is the former chief scientist at Amazon.com. He’s currently director of the Social Data Lab in California and teaches at Berkeley and Stanford Universities. Data, says Weigend, is “the new oil” – he studies and discusses the Social Data Revolution and talks to companies about how to embrace this new reality of social data. He’s in New Zealand as a guest of Telecom and spoke to online business editor Chris Daniels about how social data is changing the world.

Kim Dotcom urged New Zealanders last night to oppose the GCSB spying bill - but predicted it would take a change of government next year to protect their privacy. He was joined on stage by New Zealander of the Year Dame Anne Salmond, Law Society representative Dr Rodney Harrison, QC, and Tech Liberty online rights advocate Thomas Beagle.

Serious Fraud Office acting chief executive Simon McArley talks with Anne Gibson about the SFO’s role, fraud in NZ, bigs wins and losses for his office, how he feels when businessmen go to jail for long terms, and how NZers can protect themselves from fraud. Weekend Business tomorrow: Acting SFO CEO Simon McArley speaks exclusively and frankly about fraud, corruption and the state of our corporate crime scene.

Finance Minister Bill English along with Labour Finance spokesman David Parker comment on Fran O'Sullivan's Mood of the Boardroom report and give their opinions a Capital Gains tax and raising the superannuation age to 67.

The best of the TEDx Auckland 2012 Speakers & Performers compilation video.

Peter Young established Fisheye Films in Christchurch in 1997 and has worked as a freelance director and cameraman. He came to filmmaking the long way, spending the first ten years of his working life mustering, shearing, fishing and fencing. Over this time he developed a strong connection to the land and the people that work on it and this bond remained even with his shift to film and television. Peter has credits in well over a hundred documentaries, among them; BBC’s Blue Planet series, a documentary on giant squids for prime time Discovery, episodes on the South Island for Country Calendar, the acclaimed TVNZ series Explorers,and the final tribute documentary for Sir Edmund Hillary.

Philip Patston is best recognised for his ten-year career as a comedian and entertainer, but it’s his passion for social change that is getting him noticed. An alumni of the New Zealand Social Entrepreneur Fellowship, Philip is a passionate believer that we have a powerful opportunity to reimagine diversity. His focus is on engaging people to achieve positive social change by reinventing the labels with which we categorise ourselves and each other.

Paul has always had a passion for technology and reading and finds it fascinating that we can now carry an entire library around in our pocket. Yet the reading experience has not evolved in more than 2000 years despite storytelling taking disruptive leaps forward with the introduction of film and video games. Booktrack is his answer to addressing the decline in reading and literacy rates that will help make reading relevant again to a new generation of readers.

Matthew Simmons is the CEO of Arvus Group International and currently part of the NZ Clean Energy Centre’s Enterprise Great Lake Taupo (EGLT) team. Matthew’s company, Arvus, is an external source of R&D and innovation worldwide, and has been involved in successful innovations in the fields of Digital Cinema, Loudspeaker design, Acoustics, Optics and Viticulture.

As Chief Executive of the Gibson Group, Victoria leads a group of diverse and talented producers, creatives and technicians. The Gibson Group’s innovative visitor attractions and museum works, and its hugely popular television programmes and films have been exported around the world. Recent projects include an immersive museum outreach project in Copenhagen which has won three prestigious international awards, including one from the United Nations.

Sean is a physicist, decathlete, political advisor and TED fellow. He is originally from New Zealand where he ran for national elected office and helped start New Zealand’s first nanotech company. Sean studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where he received a PhD for his research on the mathematical patterns that underlie modern war. This research has taken him all over the world from the Pentagon, to the United Nations and Iraq. Previously, Sean worked at NASA on self-repairing nano-circuits and is a two-time New Zealand track and field champion. Sean is now based in San Francisco where he splits his time between mathematical research and his venture capital backed startup Quid.

Emma Rogan is a partner at Auckland design company Apropos and founder of New Zealand’s 100 Days Project. Her work has been awarded and recognised by the NZ Best Awards, Communication Arts, The Webby Awards and Adobe.

Though he likes to call his poems “songs for the tone-deaf”, Sam has happily worked with musicians – country band The Warratahs, modern classical man Gareth Farr, the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and alternative rocker David Kilgour, among others. Sam was special guest at two acclaimed Leonard Cohen concerts in 2009. In 1986, Sam was awarded a QSM – a “quiet sober man” he claimed. In 2010, he was further festooned with honour when he was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM) for services to poetry. Sam has enjoyed a burst of activity in recent years, publishing a new collection of poems Doubtless and the semi-autobiographical Backroads: Charting a Poet’s Life, as well as a selection of James K. Baxter poems. His most recent book is Knucklebnes: Poems 1962 – 2012.

Professor John Windsor is a surgeon who holds a personal chair in surgery at the University of Auckland. His current research includes the role of toxic mesenteric lymph in the promotion of multiple organ failure; the investigation of specific mitochondrial therapies to restore cellular bioenergetics; the mapping and modulation of gastric electrical activity; and the development of medical devices. Over the last five years, John has published 80 manuscripts, raised $6m in grants and given over 100 invited talks, including Visiting Professorships to Harvard, Oxford, Karolinska, Singapore, Cape Town and Delhi. John is also co-founder and director of the startup SIMTICS Ltd that has developed the ‘Integrated Cognitive Simulator’ for procedural and surgical skills training.

Pip Hall has worked as a full time writer in theatre, film and television for 17 years. An accomplished playwright, Pip has multiple awards to her name including New Zealand’s most significant and prestigious theatre honour, the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award. Pip also works extensively in television and film as a writer, story liner, story/script editor, developer, creative producer and actor.

Alistair Knott is a linguist and cognitive scientist working at Otago University‘s Department of Computer Science. He grew up in Brussels, attending the European School, a multilingual institution whose Babel-like environment sparked a lifelong interest in language. Ali studied psychology and philosophy at Oxford University, and then did postgraduate and postdoctoral work in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. He took up a lectureship at Otago in 1999, where he is now an associate professor. Ali’s research is in computational modelling of human language, with a focus on models of language generation. He worked on some of the earliest text generation systems deployed on the World Wide Web, and on an influential web-based human-computer dialogue system. His current interest is in psychological models of text generation: What are the neural mechanisms which allow people to talk about what they see and do?