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Jamie Mackay: Rural Kiwis need to step up vaccination efforts

Rural New Zealanders are dragging the chain a bit on vaccination rates.

Opinion: Why Three Waters is necessary despite divide

The current system is broken and literally in need of significant repair.

Simon Wilson: It's a terrible time to talk about climate change but we have to do it

National says it's a bad time for climate action and that's true. But when's a good time?

Opinion: Best laid plans for water reform can be saved

Proposal to merge 67 council water services into four is proving controversial.

Christopher Luxon: Local control in troubled waters

OPINION: The tide is going out on community decision-making

Sir John Key: 'A national embarrassment' - 5 ideas to transform our Covid approach

OPINION: To get a different outcome we need a different strategy, writes the former PM.

Napier, the town where the water runs brown, says no to the Crown

Council received 800 responses from residents about Government's Three Waters proposal.

Brian Fallow: Water reform logic flows one way

It should be clear to councils the status quo is not an option.

John Gascoigne: Exporting into a better future

Opinion:New Zealand needs new, global-scale areas of dynamic comparative advantage.

Opinion: Why farmers protested in the streets

Opinion: Farmer Shelley Krieger knows why rural people took to the streets last week.

Jack Tame: Protesting farmers are hypocrites - but so am I

OPINION: All of us have to make sacrifices if we are to stop plundering the world.

Claire Trevett: Dismiss protesting farmers as rednecks at your peril, Prime Minister

The PM's reforms make it clear she wants to leave a legacy - but how much is too much?

Opinion: Apples – an industry in transition to a productive future

Informed discussions needed about any changes that compound existing workforce shortages.

Catherine Beard: Exports hammered by border decisions

Strains and cracks are starting to appear in the exports sector.

Kate MacNamara: Do fishing boat cameras really warrant Covid funding?

How money earmarked for responding to a public health disaster bought cameras on boats.

Jamie Mackay: Ardern's Fieldays popularity a problem for Nats

Farmers don't love Labour. So why did PM have 'rock star' status at Mystery Creek?