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Duncan Garner: This weekend could be the most significant of Christopher Luxon’s political career

Who allowed PM to take a word salad to a press conference & will he finally read the room?

Leah McFall: The one item that proves beyond doubt you’ve become middle-class

Own this one thing and you have become a card-carrying member of the Comfortable Middle.

Law by language? David Harvey on courts, the vocabulary of advocacy and policy creep

Courts wield soft power through concepts they validate, so words must be chosen with care.

Russell Brown: Infrastructure Commission report reveals the folly of some government pet projects

The government is struggling to distinguish 'needs' from 'wants'.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation rides high once more buoyed by a wave of anti-immigration sentiment

The mid-December massacre at Bondi has fuelled the newly febrile debate around migration.

Simon Wilson: Smart politics does not equal smart town planning

David Seymour's dramatic hyperbole spooks PM into playing politics.

Health NZ’s annual report is not a story of a system on the mend; it’s a real-time demonstration of managed decline

Despite cost-cutting, Health New Zealand’s financial state is far from fighting fit.

Russell Brown: In the UK, the Epstein Files cause a parliamentary crisis. In the US, they barely raise eyebrows

Deputy US attorney-general Todd Blanche tells journalists any Epstein investigation's over