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<i>Cartoon:</i> The joke's over

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Don't swallow Brash's medicine

<i>Don Brash:</i> 2025 advice best shot at bridging gap

Recommendations which simply endorsed currently popular measures would have meant that the 2025 Taskforce had achieved nothing at all.

<i>Simon Collins:</i> Hands-off Govt the main theme of Brash report

<i>John Armstrong:</i> 2025 report too extreme to promote

The 2025 Taskforce has delivered exactly the kind of extreme right-wing-policy prescription its critics had predicted it would.

<i>Cartoon:</i> New approach to rocket science

<i>Editorial:</i> Key must act to close gap with Australia

<i>Audrey Young:</i> Key needs to follow his own advice for Copenhagen summit

<i>Fran O'Sullivan:</i> Minister faces hidden perils in race-based forestry deal

<i>John Roughan:</i> Decisions better from elected heads

<i>Paul Thomas:</i> Hide, Harawira episodes make us look like a banana republic

<i>Patrick Gower:</i> Goff finally discovers the right way to win

<i>Editorial:</i> At least Key is being upfront over Dalai Lama

<i>Cartoon:</i> The week that was, part 1

Chicken fever hits parliament

<i>Mike Moore:</i> Does Apec stand for Avoid Practical Economic Change?