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May 22, 2012
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Re-elected Prime Minister John Key is in talks with United Future, Act and the Maori Party as he attempts to drum up coalition support. National won the election with 48 percent of the vote but still needs support parties in order to have a majority. While National would have preferred to do more business with Act, it wanted to keep working with the Maori Party, he said.
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The future of Act is uncertain – a new leader, brand and possibly even a name change are on the cards after this weekend’s election result. Don Brash has officially resigned as the head of the party, and with former party president Catherine Isaac ruling out a return, John Banks – who now holds the Epsom seat as Act’s only representative in Parliament – is the frontrunner
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Up to 20 percent of the four state-owned power companies could be owned by iwi once National begins the process of selling off part of its stake in SOEs. Iwi Chairs Forum member and Ngai Tahu chair Mark Solomon told Radio New Zealand today an alliance of tribes had been interested in buying shares for a few years, but any decision would depend on the sale process. Maori Party leader Tariana Turia has said iwi want to be major players in any government sale of assets, but New Zealand First leader Winston Peters accused the party of wanting to have a “bob each way” over the issue.
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You wouldn’t expect a bunch of 17-year-olds to actually come up with a good business idea, would you? And you wouldn’t expect that business, 11 years later, to be employing 40 staff and have offices in Wellington, Auckland and Melbourne – not to mention the fact you wouldn’t expect the newly-installed CEO to be a 29-year-old.
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An extra 140 undergraduate students will be carrying out state-funded research and development projects for New Zealand businesses this summer. Science and innovation minister Wayne Mapp said demand for the MSI’s undergraduate internships programme was so strong, 341 internships would be awarded instead of 200. Funding for the annual programme, which provides funding of $16 per hour (excl. GST) for up to 400 hours of work by a student, has increased from $1.28 to $2.4 million.
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It’s an irony of the grandest order that “brutal simplicity” is being celebrated in an industry where only the most complex of ad campaigns get peer applause. Still, the simplicity with which this slim volume concerns itself is not one of simple like village-idiot-simple but rather brilliant-simple. Perhaps it should’ve been called the Brilliant Simplicity of Thought, but then not all thoughts are simple.
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