Public perceptions could be affecting some businesses' ability to get bank accounts.

Coal mining company Bathurst Resources has been dropped by two banks in the past five years.

Massey University Business School's Claire Matthews says companies seen as bad for the environment are increasingly coming up against consumer concerns.

She says it's a challenge - and businesses can find themselves struggling because there's not many alternative options.

Meanwhile, Kiwi fashion designer Dame Trelise Cooper is under fire over a dress labelled Trail of Tiers.

It's similar to Trail of Tears – the name for the US Federal Government's forced relocation of Native Americans between 1830 and 1850.

Victoria University of Wellington professor Joanna Kidman says when she saw the dress on Cooper’s website, she found the name very jarring.

Amd the Government is investigating into how to better manage empty homes across the country, after a Stats NZ report revealed up to 100,000 houses might be uninhabited.

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