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Editorial: The threatened Pacific Peoples Ministry needs to survive, and thrive
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Wyn Drabble: It’s off to the sandpit for a bit of negotiating
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Opinion: Real work begins for Government after 'long slog' of 2023
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Opinion: Waitakere Ranges’ closure is a tragedy - reopen the tracks
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Letters: New Zealand’s low wages and our tax system
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Editorial: What Luxon can do if he can’t make the wheels of governing turn faster
OPINION: Why certainty would be more useful than a long 100-day plan.
Letters: Traffic congestion is bad every day, not only weekdays
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Downtown carpark: 21st-century city or 20th-century carpark?
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Mike Hosking: Don’t expect too much from Cop28
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Richard Prebble: How the Labour Party can win again
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Three's a crowd: Why Luxon deserves some slack as coalition talks drag on
If Luxon gets the set-up wrong, he risks a Cabinet paralysed by disagreements and delays.
Audrey Young: Seymour's swipe puts National on notice
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Opinion: Jeff Bezos is having an epic mid-life crisis and this pic proves it
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Letters: Tax reform urgently needed; will we need another election?
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William Dart review: NZ Symphony Orchestra gets cinematic with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter
Violinist's partnership with American film composer John Williams proves a crowd-pleaser.
Opinion: AT marches on - oblivious to the impact of their ‘improvements’
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Editorial: Auckland congestion charges - equity is the obvious issue
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Juha Saarinen: Online scam victims have nothing to be ashamed about
OPINION: Online scamming is big business.
Simon Wilson: What Wayne Brown got right - and wrong - about congestion on Auckland roads
OPINION: Wayne Brown's ideas about traffic congestion are good but could be far better.
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Audrey Young: Luxon's next four problems and how to deal with them
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Liam Dann: Say cheese... how we’re winning the war on inflation
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Rob Rattenbury: A sleepy hamlet and a beautiful lake
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