Articles by Ryan Bridge

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Ryan Bridge: Should National campaign on a partial float?
Thursday, 31 July 2025, 6:12am
They haven't said it explicitly yet, but one day soon, our KiwiSaver contributions will rise to 12% and Kiwibank will be...
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Ryan Bridge: Have we lost the plot on Health and Safety rules?
Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 6:01am
Brooke van Velden's anti-health and safety crusade's taken a rather bizarre twist - it's the plot twist nobody saw coming. She's...
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Ryan Bridge: Here we go again with the nurses strikes
Tuesday, 29 July 2025, 6:23am
If you've got an appointment at the hospital this week, you might want to check it's still going ahead. Nurses are going...
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Ryan Bridge: cone overkill must stop
Monday, 28 July 2025, 6:13am
Chris Bishop says we're sick of over-the-top cone use and expensive traffic management plans. And he'd be right. They are...
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Ryan Bridge: A new political battlefront's opening up on homelessness
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 7:15am
Nobody wants to see streets dotted with tents like San Francisco or downtown LA. This much-hyped government report to Tama...
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Ryan Bridge: Is supermarket pricing as bad as we think it is?
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 6:07am
This business with the supermarkets and their pricing... Consumer NZ has launched a petition. They want change to stop prices...
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Ryan Bridge: Should we be worried about the business of business cases?
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 6:18am
ACT's insistence that the Waikato University doctors school cost was out of whack and based on a poor quality business case...
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Ryan Bridge: Something needs to be done about NCEA
Monday, 21 July 2025, 6:10am
If we could mark NCEA level One... would it even get an achieved. let alone a merit or excellence? We heard at the weekend...
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Ryan Bridge: National's week of law and order announcements
Friday, 4 July 2025, 6:12am
The award for most press releases and announcements on a single issue must got to National this week. Law and Order was front...
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Ryan Bridge: There should be instant fines for loss of data
Thursday, 3 July 2025, 6:26am
Yesterday was a bad day for some of my pet peeves. I couldn't find a carpark in town, I had to visit a supermarket, and...
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Ryan Bridge: The coalition is stealing Labour's thunder
Wednesday, 2 July 2025, 6:03am
You know immediately when something makes good political sense. You can usually tell, not by listening to the Minister announce...
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Ryan Bridge: Can we trust AI?
Tuesday, 1 July 2025, 6:17am
The robots are coming, and they reckon they'll be better than us humans at doing difficult, complex stuff - like being a...
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Ryan Bridge: Will the crime crackdown make much difference?
Monday, 30 June 2025, 6:00am
The government's so-called crackdown on crime is more than just tough talk but that doesn't mean it'll make much difference...
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Ryan Bridge: Will pill popping really help with our deeper issues?
Friday, 27 June 2025, 6:10am
If you've got a health problem, if you've got a mental problem, if you can't sleep, if you're fat, enormous, obese, don't...
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Ryan Bridge: Paying for our ageing population
Thursday, 26 June 2025, 6:16am
It's obvious to anyone paying attention that we don't have enough young people working to support the cost of health and...
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Ryan Bridge: The limits to freedom of expression
Wednesday, 25 June 2025, 6:01am
It's just amazing the shear breadth and diversity of things we get outraged by on any given week. Whether its Brian Tamaki,...
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Ryan Bridge: Investment is about attractive offers
Tuesday, 24 June 2025, 6:18am
A couple of investment-related revelations from the Government this week proves a couple of basic points about business:...
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Ryan Bridge: Were the US strikes on Iran really a success?
Monday, 23 June 2025, 6:09am
So we now know the Americans used seven B-2 Stealth bombers to attack Iran's three nuclear sites. They used a dozen bunker-buster...
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Ryan Bridge: We shouldn't ignore conflict
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 6:05am
I’m as guilty as the next Kiwi of complaining about the tyranny of distance, but the fact is we’re bloody lucky to live far...
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Ryan Bridge: Is Run It Straight really that dangerous?
Wednesday, 18 June 2025, 6:11am
The moral outrage over Run It Straight competitions is a tricky one. As more and more young men ran at each other head-on...
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Ryan Bridge: The economy's been a sick patient for a long time
Tuesday, 17 June 2025, 6:04am
If growth is the game we're in then the Reserve Bank should keep cutting interest rates. The problem is growth is not the...
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Ryan Bridge: A lot going on in the world
Monday, 16 June 2025, 6:01am
The Prime Minister’s jetting off on a diplomatic mission this week and he’s heading into a very undiplomatic world. Israel...
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Ryan Bridge: Luxon's rhetoric is starting to match the reality
Friday, 13 June 2025, 6:03am
It’s fair to say Christopher Luxon’s had a rough run at the top. The transition from CEO to PM hasn’t been all that smooth....
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Ryan Bridge: The dial has shifted in farming and emissions
Thursday, 12 June 2025, 6:11am
I’ve been reflecting this Fieldays week on how much the dial has shifted in farming and emissions. We had Chris Hipkins on...

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