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<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>Matt McCarten</i>: We're not jealous of the rich, we're just annoyed
Columnist Matt McCarten been thinking about John Key's comments around the Budget asking us not to be jealous of the rich.
<i>Tapu Misa:</i> Inequality bound to hurt us all in the end
Tapu Misa writes that the growing divide between rich and poor makes solidarity and a sense of community more difficult.
<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>Len Brown:</i> Plotting a course for the City of Sails
Len Brown writes on 'the Auckland disease' and future relations with Wellington.
<i>Chris Finlayson:</i> Shared governance of healthy river at heart of Treaty deal
Chris Finlayson writes on how the Waikato River Settlement Act benefits the whole nation.
<i>Matt McCarten</i>: Brown's hope as Hide bulldozes public opinion
Banks' strategists are going to have a hard time getting media to believe their political spin from now on.