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The Single Biggest Obstacle
Raising Taxes will be a hard-sell for Chris Hipkins if all the additional revenue is pledged to funding pay equity.
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Wooing The Masses – A Green Fairy Tale?
This is what Chloe Swarbrick was saying a year ago. She's still saying it.
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National’s Chief Engineer.
If Chris Bishop steers National to victory in 2026, only one reward makes any sense.
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Pressure Points.
Israel must stop giving Hamas what it wants.
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Necessary Truths.
Not all children are nice. Not all of the insights of young people are wholesome.
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Not-so-tolerant New Zealand Rears Its Ugly Head.
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Panic In Action
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Please Explain.
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You had me, until …
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Collision Course.
Can New Zealanders change their direction of travel? Do they want to?
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Breaking Out.
Over the next 15 months, each of the three Coalition partners must seize as much of the Right’s ideological territory as possible for themselves.
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Not Nice People
In the precincts of power, being "nice" gets you precisely nowhere.
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Too Few to Win, Too Many to Die.
Why should New Zealanders pay the slightest attention to anything the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples has to say?
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Somewhere To Vote For.
Conservative New Zealand is still waiting for the Coalition to keep its promises – and NZ First’s surging poll numbers may be registering their…
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Panic In Action
The Professional-Managerial Class feels the chill winds of change around its privileged status – and it doesn’t like it.
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Maintaining Discipline
Far from being a political distraction, "Law & Order" goes to the heart of what it means to govern.
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Legislating For Liberty
The Regulatory Standards Bill sounds like one of those pieces of legislation debated on a dreary Thursday afternoon in an almost empty House of…
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The Fight for Tāmaki Makaurau.
Race and class, eh? Can’t win with ‘em, can’t win without ‘em. Order your popcorn now.
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Not-so-tolerant New Zealand Rears Its Ugly Head.
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Panic In Action
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Please Explain.
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You had me, until …
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The Many and the Few
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