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Editorial: Wait drags on for pay equity breakthrough

This year has carried hopes of a breakthrough for "pay equity", which means equal pay for women not just with men doing the same work but with men doing different work.

Editorial: Lure of history will feed flames for Welsh tonight

Back in the day Wales could run on to a rugby paddock and field a team stacked with A-list names.

Editorial: Bottled water can bear cost of resource

In a country where it is perfectly safe to drink water from a tap, it is incredible that anybody can make money by selling water in bottles.

Editorial: Time to ask questions of constitution

Why should this Pacific nation, half the world away from the sovereign's palace, retain a foreign head of state?

Editorial: NZ must hope Britain has sense to stay

Pity the British. Here in NZ we have referendums on subjects such as the flag; they have them on the make-up of their nation and its place in the world.

Editorial: Great dream for rapid rail gets on track at long last

If the railway works as its planners intend, it will make Auckland a more compact city, boosting its CBD and attracting more dense development.

Editorial: Beauty in return of the Beast to Warriors wing

The return of Manu Vatuvei to the playing field today is doubly welcome. The stuttering Warriors sorely need the hulking winger's presence.

Editorial: Interest rates grip mortgaged

A week ago, when the Budget had delivered no answers to the hyperinflation of house prices, the PM told us to wait for a National Policy Statement.

Editorial: Auckland's rugby needs quick cure for the blues

These days Auckland is more like a graveyard for potential All Blacks. They seem to do better in any other franchise.

Editorial: NCEA's poor report card needs action

A survey of 1777 secondary school teachers has found nearly half believe the national assessment system, NCEA, is adversely affecting their teaching.

Editorial: Gotingco case shows we've learned little

It is often said in favour of prisoner rehabilitation programmes that every offender has to be released eventually. That's not quite true.

Editorial: English right to favour cutting debt

We should be reducing debt faster while the good times last, not talking about tax cuts.

Editorial: Fishers need incentives to save stocks

The theory of tradeable quotas always sounded too good to be true.

Editorial: 'Supply' excuse for housing lets govt stand idle

Whatever the source of the demand for Auckland houses, it will remain insatiable if the Government pretends it is purely a problem of supply.

Editorial: Break-up makes for TV dream come true

The <i>Bachelor NZ</i>, the television show which unravelled off-screen these past few days, ended its season a ratings hit.

Editorial: Let's hope Government has learned from errors

The Government should tilt the market in favour of those still waiting for the Kiwi dream.