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Steven Joyce: Competition v compliance - NZ’s safety-first approach is hurting us

OPINION: Competition is nearly always the best way to ensure consumers win.

Mary Holm: Financial tips for graduating to the working world

OPINION: Start out saving a big portion of your pay while you can still live on little.

Claire Trevett: Luxon and Stanford visit the 1980s; method in Shane Jones' fast-track madness

Stanford's education shift has shades of the 1980s about it, but it might work.

Gregor Paul: Provincial unions find themselves in crosshairs of history

OPINION: Provinces will have to decide on what basis they can say their plan is better.

Gisborne Herald letters: Alcohol licence debate, your new look paper, ignoring Winston and how much does vibrancy cost?

Letters to the editor: What's on the mind of Gisborne Herald readers?

Audrey Young: Peters switches from statesman to street-brawler

OPINION: Also in today's political wrap - what on earth is up with Green MPs?

Tight Five: Is Havili a genuine contender for All Blacks No 10 jersey?

OPINION: Scott Robertson has instructed his former side to make the radical change.

Opinion: How worried should we be about the return of bird flu?

FT opinion: Now is not a time for paranoia but there is a case for extreme vigilance.

Editorial: Time to turn the spotlight on to airline behaviour

OPINION: Dearth of data on price, performance a challenge for passengers, policy-makers.

Inside Economics: Can we spend our way out of recession?

Liam Dann answers readers' economic questions and digs beneath headlines.

Otago Uni name change: 'We are a Te Tiriti-led university'

OPINION: Otago University Students’ Association president Keegan Wells on their new logo

Letters: Truancy must have consequences; reducing council rates bills

OPINION: 'This escalating truancy problem has its inception in the family home.'

Opinion: Government's Treaty Principles Bill advances colonialism

OPINION: The Crown constantly redefines the Treaty.

Editorial: Tragic rugby death throws spotlight on safety in sports

OPINION: Cory Heather's fatal injury highlights the importance of player safety.

Richard Prebble: Rolling ministers is the way to get rolled

OPINION: Show me an incompetent minister and I'll show you an incompetent department head.

PM Christopher Luxon faces trial by pay rise, Hipkins is short-changed

There's no good time for MPs to get pay rises, but there were some redeeming features.