OPINION: Politicians need to learn budgeting lessons from the pay equity disaster.

OPINION: Parliament needs to return to original purpose of Crown honouring promises.

OPINION: The preschool review is a template but it is too little and takes too long.

OPINION: Navigating Brazil's complex market for New Zealand businesses.

OPINION: Luxon wants to take the fight global but he needs to focus on the home front.

OPINION: Labour and National have increased debt, leaving NZ vulnerable to shocks.

OPINION: Politicians should not be able to make deal with Opposition to extend their term.

OPINION: Luxon needs to step up and be a leader not just a negotiator.

OPINION: Give the money to the schools and make them responsible for making decisions.

OPINION: Phil Goff would not have been sacked under different US leadership.

OPINION: I will not participate in turning the Treaty into a socialist manifesto.

OPINION: The RBNZ relies on official statistics even though they are prone to be wrong.

OPINION: Strong personal relationships are crucial for effective diplomacy in the Pacific.

OPINION: Coalition government needs to take a leaf out of Trump's book and move faster.

OPINION: Labour should take a bi-partisan approach to economic growth.

OPINION: The Government does not need to run businesses.

OPINION: No civil servant knows as much about your life as you do.

OPINION: I did not rate Jimmy Carter - but the eulogies at his funeral changed my mind.

OPINION: It cannot continue with the same policies and expect different outcomes.

The Government needs to use more accurate modeling of the economy.

OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Richard Prebble.

OPINION: Ferries dilemma reveals deeper port strategy issues.

OPINION: Dairy is a sustainable way to grow the country.

OPINION: David Seymour's regulation-busting ministry needed more than ever.

OPINION: Selling assets to pay off debt should be an option.

OPINION: Two New Zealand companies are already showing the way.

OPINION: The lessons NZ should take from what Trump is promising.

OPINION: Britain plans to tax the rich and businesses more.

OPINION: We need a new approach.

OPINION: The recession and Luxon's political inexperience are two factors for low polling.

OPINION: Spending more on healthcare has not fixed the problems.

OPINION: Closing the gap with Oz will take years but narrowing it each year is achievable.

OPINION: 'Secrecy causes far more damage than disclosure. The answer is ... no secrets'.

OPINION: Prison is the gangs' recruitment centre. Govts start the recruitment process.

OPINION: More debt, tariffs and wealth taxes are all issues in the US election.

OPINION: We need policies that recognise we are both taxpayers and consumers.

OPINION: Are we really going to start people on the path to prison for parking?

OPINION: History has shown government-owned banks have done poorly.

OPINION: Kamalamania appears to be driving the polls in the US.

OPINION: Luxon’s politics is motivated by a desire to lift education achievement.

OPINION: The coalition's drug-buying decisions raise more questions.

OPINION: The economy is too complex for any government to be able to pick winners.

OPINION: Insisting on a plan using today’s technology just gives illusion of certainty.

OPINION: Chris Hipkins cannot extract Labour from the swamp of identity politics.

OPINION: Lifting the quality of teaching must be a priority.

OPINION: Recent TV debates held by the major parties in both countries have been decisive.

OPINION: A Kiwi-invented app could provide the solution.

OPINION: Coalition has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to make sweeping deregulations.

OPINION: Since MMP no minor party in Cabinet has survived the next election.

OPINION: The evidence indicates New Zealand has exceeded its peak taxation.

OPINION: US charter schools are so popular that schools hold enrolment lotteries.

OPINION: New Zealand politicians regard just spending money as a success.

OPINION: The Government needs to talk about its vision, not just give a list of actions.

OPINION: Show me an incompetent minister and I'll show you an incompetent department head.

OPINION: 'Public life has cost me two marriages. I was not willing to risk a third.'

OPINION: New Zealand has a free trade agreement with China, not the US.

OPINION: Business leaders are more trusted than politicians.

OPINION: Advocacy ministries are one reason the civil service grew by 14,000.

OPINION: His polling is now down 10 per cent from its peak.

OPINION: What we blast as 'police state' tyranny elsewhere we are doing ourselves.

OPINION: We need both congestion charging and user charges to fix Auckland's traffic jams.

OPINION: PM has left previous govt appointees in key roles - including the Reserve Bank.

Is the best way to get people out of poverty redistributing wealth or a strong economy?

The words are just gesture politics unless they are implemented.

OPINION: Laws are what are passed by Parliament as interpreted by the courts.

OPINION: Giving the city taxpayers’ money would only reward reckless behaviour.

Everything Labour did failed to reduce benefit numbers.

OPINION: This year we need to keep an eye on Japan, with its alarming debt to GDP ratio.

OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Richard Prebble.

OPINION: Ongoing technological change is a certainty.

OPINION: All we got for Christmas was rain and bad news.

OPINION: Act leader David Seymour should get his teeth into the earthquake regulations.

OPINION: Aspirational goals can be dangerous.

OPINION: But the new Government has inherited a mess.

OPINION: Labour wasted its years in Opposition and did no policy work.

OPINION: Is election-day enrolment destroying the integrity of our elections?

Opinion: It's obvious that trade with India is the way to reduce our dependence on China.

OPINION: Chris Hipkins must fancy his chances of winning the next election.