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![Poll split over Fiordland tourism plans](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Poll split over Fiordland tourism plans
New Zealanders are split down the middle over dual proposals to cut a tunnel or monorail track through parts of Fiordland which contain some of the country's greatest walking tracks.
![Miners suffer as gold price slides](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Miners suffer as gold price slides
Plunging gold prices have forced miners to change their plans, with Oceana Gold moving to mothball an open pit on the West Coast while the world's biggest miner.
![David Ellis: Boosting New Zealand's brain gain](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
David Ellis: Boosting New Zealand's brain gain
Recent media coverage suggests that the main issue for returning expats, or repats, is re-entry culture shock, writes David Ellis. It is not.
![Liam Dann: Economic nerves tumbled Gillard](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Liam Dann: Economic nerves tumbled Gillard
Julia Gillard wasn't sunk by sexism. She was sunk by economics, writes Liam Dann. That's not to say Australia's first female Prime Minister didn't have to battle some dreadful misogynistic rubbish.
![Houses gobble up city's most productive land](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Houses gobble up city's most productive land
Auckland has lost 4 per cent of its most fertile rural land to housing over the past two decades and is set to lose more under the strain of a million more residents.
![Rates hike not the way to stop house bubble](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Rates hike not the way to stop house bubble
The Reserve Bank says raising interest rates now isn't the right policy response to an overheated housing market.
![Peter Lyons: Resurgent US economy will bring pain for us all](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Peter Lyons: Resurgent US economy will bring pain for us all
A resurgent American economy would have a major impact on New Zealand, writes Peter Lyons. The events of the past few weeks provide a taster.
![Graduates earn less in NZ - OECD](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Graduates earn less in NZ - OECD
A new OECD report makes grim reading for tertiary graduates - they can expect to earn far less than those in other developed countries.
![Fuel discount schemes attract more](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Fuel discount schemes attract more
Attractive discount schemes out to counteract pain at the pump draw nearly 80 per cent of Kiwi motorists to particular service stations, a new survey reveals.
![Visitor arrivals surge to new May record](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Visitor arrivals surge to new May record
Visitor arrivals in May were up 9 per cent from the same month last year, Statistics New Zealand said today.
![New low for MRP shares](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
New low for MRP shares
Mighty River Power shares slumped to a new low of $2.23 this morning as the local stock exchange followed world markets down, reaching its lowest point in a month.
![Modest growth - GDP up just 0.3pc](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Modest growth - GDP up just 0.3pc
The dollar has dropped on news the economy limped along in the first three months of the year, thanks largely to the North Island drought.
![Gareth Morgan: Those with means should buy 'multiple houses'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Gareth Morgan: Those with means should buy 'multiple houses'
If the market distortion is going to persist then those with the means should be buying multiple houses, they can't do anything but go up in value, writes Gareth Morgan.
![Earthworks' effect on environment 'irreversible'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Earthworks' effect on environment 'irreversible'
Massive earthworks carving through difficult country for Auckland's next highway will dwarf excavations for the Waterview motorway tunnels.