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On the Money (OTM) is our column of general frippery we observed within the worlds of business and government this week.

Apparently, it is easier for a New Zealander with no naval experience to become a Commander in the Royal Australian Navy than it is for them to become an Australian citizen.


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By Drew Harwell

When he learned last Saturday about the killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Israeli-American business executive in New York was excited to cash in.


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By Nancy Keates, with principal photography by Jackie Meiring for the WSJ

For San Diego residents David and Katherine Burnett, the question wasn’t why they would move across the world to New Zealand. It was why they wouldn’t.  


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Each fortnight, Victoria Carter speaks to someone about failure, disappointment and what they learned. This week, she talks to Dr Michael Bassett, a former Labour Party MP, Cabinet minister and a noted New Zealand historian and author.

I was really disappointed when my father died. I was 8. Then, quite soon thereafter, my grandfath...


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Cabotage 

/ˈkæbətɪdʒ, -tɑːʒ/ is the right of a foreign airline to carry passengers between two domestic points. 


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