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The tricky thing with the teachers deal is it's hard to call it a loss, given it isn't. Especially if you're a teacher, for...
Every Friday morning, Mike Hosking takes you through the big ticket items of the week and lets you know what he makes of...
What is it about working parties? Having seen a record set for them with the arrival of this government, Wellington City...
Buckle up for some more politically correct scandal. Sport New Zealand and High Performance Sport New Zealand, organisations...
While always dubious of surveys, what we can’t escape from this week’s job satisfaction numbers is that the education sector...
COMMENT: There is a substantive lesson to be learned from the Crusaders decision not to change their name. That lesson...
COMMENT: In a world where polls are no longer to be trusted, and just before we completely throw them in the bin, I draw...
COMMENT: I avoided weighing into the D-Day commemorations saga because I was, in a way, hoping there might have been a pretty...
COMMENT: The headline, as headlines are designed to do, drew my attention, "Jacinda Ardern's Cabinet reshuffle: what to...
COMMENT: The real trick to political success is to get the people to go along with you. Sometimes it's easy, the argument...
The good thing about this being a local body election year is that at last we are starting to see a light shone on the arrogance,...
Already the doubts over what Grant Robertson was telling us last Friday are spreading. If you missed it last week, what...
COMMENT: So Budget 2019 has come and gone. To his credit, Grant Robertson presented it well, sold it well, and laid out...
COMMENT: What we have witnessed this week is the worst week of this Government's term - and by quite some margin. They...
COMMENT: Despite the fact it's being called the first "Wellbeing Budget," the demands and hopes are pretty much the same...
COMMENT: So it's a no from Alfred Ngaro. Which in many respects is a shame if you're a fan of more options under MMP, which...
COMMENT: It's not the news the Government wants in budget week. The Warehouse is laying off up to 150 people, and there...
COMMENT: Welcome to Budget week - a week already upended, to a degree, by the abject failure of this Government to stick...
COMMENT: A very welcome note of realism appears to have landed at the doorstep of the second "Schools for Climate Change"...
Once again we can dip into the learnings of Saturday night in Australia, and if we are smart apply them here. The coalition...
COMMENT: The Government's underwrite KiwiBuild trigger has been pulled again. This is the second time, and this time it...
COMMENT: I'm assuming Simon Bridges is playing the political game in not talking honestly about Alfred Ngaro, his party,...
COMMENT: You can almost feel the angst emanating from Ganesh Nana. Ganesh is a fairly well-known economist of a left-leaning...
Hard to believe it took until the middle of May but here we are with the joy of being able to start the new week with two,...
