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OPINION: It seems Jacinda Ardern simply wants to drown out the noise surrounding her mate.

OPINION: This Government's good at making an announcement about an upcoming announcement.

OPINION: The PM is a celebrity leader and she's determined to keep it that way.

OPINION: They should lead their flock by example, not by doing a runner.

OPINION: For starters, take those deliberate rulebreakers to task and prosecute them.

OPINION: Mallard may be safe in his job but is now without any moral authority.

OPINION: What's so special about businesses in the Cook Islands?

OPINION: Before his peers, Trevor Mallard was in a hole and just kept digging.

OPINION: This whole issue has been a travesty on so many fronts.

A parliamentary staff member was sent packing after being accused by Mallard of rape.

OPINION: Barry Soper on what it would take to overturn today's cannabis vote.

Regional Development Minister is understood to be planning his biggest spend yet from PGF.

COMMENT: Some consistency and maybe a little more forethought would be nice.

COMMENT: Read their lips, there'll be no new taxes, other than for the wealthy.

COMMENT: Jacinda's promise to make Matariki a public holiday will help nab the Maori vote.

COMMENT: Level 2.5 is like being freed from prison but returning at midnight.

COMMENT: Ignore the keyboard warriors who claim 'misogynistic, racist and bullying'.

COMMENT: The answer is surely bugger all.

COMMENT: Aucklanders are going to have another weekend at home, soaking in their bubbles.

COMMENT: Hats off to Andrew Borrowdale, who took a case to challenge lockdown and won.

COMMENT: There was no appetite on the ninth floor of the Beehive to delay the election.

COMMENT: Let's hope the stable door can be now closed before too many horses have bolted.

COMMENT: The unemployment fallout won't be seen until after the election.

COMMENT: The only Captain's call you'll hear from Jacinda Ardern is to stay vigilant.

COMMENT: This is tokenism, pure and simple - creating two classes of NZ citizens.

COMMENT: National can't afford to attack the Govt's Covid response.

Comment: Rumour mill over Iain Lees-Galloway had been whirring for months.

Comment: The National Party is lurching from one crisis to the next.

COMMENT: National MPs have done what they should have done on February 27, 2018.

COMMENT: The prison planes are on their way here again.

COMMENT: It's bad enough the man got out but it's worse that he was lost track of.