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The Federal Court of Australia has handed down its latest decision in the long-running “Roadshow Proceedings”, which have seen Roadshow Films, a film distributor, successfully apply to force internet service providers to block piracy websites.

Analysis: A new number soared up the political charts yesterday. Four. Billion. Dollars. The likely blow-out cost of the Project iRex mega-ferries and terminals, from which Nicola Willis has saved the taxpayer. That’s how she enunciated it on first reading it off her notes, as it aware of its import.…

As it turns out, August 5 was a great day to buy bitcoin when it briefly fell below US$50,000. If you did, and held on for what turned out to be a relatively short white knuckle ride lasting exactly four months, you would have succeeded in doubling your money after…

Philip Temple on what lies beneath the sound and fury surrounding the Treaty Principles Bill

A week after the ‘shock’ re-election of Donald Trump to the Whitehouse and over a year into one of the most blood-soaked periods of the Middle East’s tortured modern history, the question is, what has been lost and has anything been won, and what impact might Trump II have on…

Analysis: NZ’s new trade deal with six Gulf nations is somewhat of a coup for the Government. But now’s not the time for it to sit on its laurels.

National MP Greg Fleming said he’d "lie on the tracks" to stop a rail project cleaving Auckland's Onehunga. Now that project is on his Govt’s fast-track list.

The Government’s u-turn in August that expert panels, not Ministers, should make final decisions on fast-tracked projects, was a calculated move aimed at dampening opposition to the Fast-track Approvals Bill. It partly worked, minimising perceptions of Ministerial bias towards applicants who have funded political campaigns. And now with the list…

Te Whatu Ora is believed to be paying nearly $1m more in senior executive salaries since Lester Levy was parachuted in to cut costs. Now, the attempt to quietly excise the CFO has turned septic.

Updated: Raw Energy has quietly disappeared; Prime Energy defaulted on a $17m debt. Electric Kiwi has stopped taking new customers – its co-founder concedes she's unlikely to see Govt step in and break up the gentailers but a new taskforce is a starting point. Now, Winstone Pulp has confirmed the…

More than 70 schools were awaiting construction of raised crossings or speed humps, when the Govt axed funding this week. At two of those schools, pupils were hit and seriously hurt this year. Jonathan Milne investigates.