Inside Today's Independent Financial Review

Inside Today's Independent Financial Review

Maori to launch airline.

Nelson iwi Ngati Koata is believed to be close to announcing a new domestic airline out of Nelson, possibly in partnership with another iwi or a corporate. Denise McNabb reports.

NZ too complacent over vine threat.

A pest that could devastate the wine industry has been found in air freight containers destined for New Zealand, just five hours away in Tahiti. Denise McNabb reports.

Media cry foul over World Cup coverage.

Draconian restrictions on news coverage of this year’s Rugby World Cup are ringing alarm bells among New Zealand broadcasters and newspaper publishers, writes Wilson Owen.

Dissent among the vines;

Jenni McManus finds some kiwifruit growers are chafing under Zespri’s export monopoly. Bob Edlin farewells the late Wolfgang Rosenberg, a leading light of the campaign to keep New Zealand out of foreign ownership;

Chris Trotter examines Michael Cullen’s uneasy relationship with capitalism.

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