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<i>Cut and Thrust:</i> Sniping gives way to flirting as beauties meet the beasts

<i>Editorial:</i> Give priority to trade deal with Russia

<i>John Armstrong:</i> Voters' love affair with PM cools

<i>Mike Reid:</i> Council 'flexibility' may mean privatisation by stealth

Mike Reid writes on council control of water services and options for the future.

<i>Cartoon:</i> Key sets off

<i>Matt McCarten</i>: We're not jealous of the rich, we're just annoyed

Columnist <b>Matt McCarten</b> been thinking about John Key's comments around the Budget asking us not to be jealous of the rich.

<i>Deborah Coddington</i>: Nats fail to see the folly of selling valuable farm assets

<i>Audrey Young</i>: Bennett has them gasping

<i>John Armstrong:</i> English good at doing Kiwibank groundwork

<i>Matt McCarten</i>: Brutal Budget wallops the poor, pampers the rich

<i>John Roughan</i>: Taxing question of top rate put to bed

<i>John Armstrong</i>: Key's mark all over Budget

<i>John Armstrong</i>: Welcome to the 2011 election campaign

Yesterday's Budget was the first salvo of the 2011 election. It was all about shutting Labour out of next year's contest.

<i>Brian Fallow:</i> With most taxpayers better off, who will be losers?

<i>Editorial:</i> We're stuck with KiwiRail, like it or not

<i>Yvonne Tahana:</i> Incentives are there for talks to resume

<i>John Armstrong:</i> Few votes for National in extra $1.20 a week

<i>Len Brown:</i> Plotting a course for the City of Sails

Len Brown writes on 'the Auckland disease' and future relations with Wellington.