pn632. Our own Kiwibank, not Aussie owned. "It's time to stop being Aussie-owned. Are you unknowingly backing Australia?"

With so much of our economy owned by Australians, it must be time for a re-think.

 "New Zealanders' desire to beat Australia is ingrained – almost from birth. In rugby, racehorses, barista coffee and race relations – we like to think we are better than the Aussies. Hell, we even promote the idea that our politicians are somehow superior," writes Mark Jennings in Newsroom*. (Click to read the whole article).

"Kiwibank CEO, Steve Jurkovich ... knows there is a deep well of patriotism to drink from but using it against the Aussie banks has been more of a scribble on a whiteboard than an actual strategy.