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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why gun recall will backfire

COMMENT: The gun buy-back is doomed to fail. It's being done on the cheap.

Soper: What happened to tackling bottled water exporters?

COMMENT: Is it too much to ask that we all own the water for the purposes of export?

Soper: Govt steps up to farmers' plate usually served up by Nats

COMMENT: Farming is a business like no other.

Liam Dann: Swine fever casts shadow on global economy

COMMENT: Epidemic has potential to change the economic equations for New Zealand.

Damien Venuto: Fonterra, Kiwibank, Sport NZ make marketing moves

Comment: There have been some big moves in the advertising space.

Comment: Fonterra could end up being owned offshore

Asset sales are only a temporary reprieve.

Editorial: What certainty has to do with the price of milk

We say: Government needs to offer certainty on what it expects of farmers and environment.

Editorial: The end of the meat? Not impossible, just not likely

We say: Meat substitutes are changing trends in West but global consumption still rising.

Shaun Brookes: Legalised cannabis will be a test for employers

COMMENT: Will legalising cannabis mean employees will be allowed to come to work stoned?

Hawkesby: No Mike, not all people who can't find work are lazy

COMMENT: If you have to pay $17.70 an hour now, why hire an inexperienced employee?

Hosking: Lazy Kiwis refuse to work in orchards for good money

COMMENT: Some work-shy people are slack, lazy, can't be bothered, interested in excuses.

Political Roundup: Has the Govt lost the debate on CGT?

Recent poll on capital gains tax is far from indicative of whether the public oppose plan.

Brian Gaynor: Should Fonterra list before it's too late?

COMMENT: Westland's pending sale to foreign buyer should be warning to industry.

Mike Hosking: Hats off to a farmer who tells it like it is

Hosking: Comments are colourful and not PC but they're not all that inaccurate.

Rachel Stewart: Owning firearms a privilege not a right

COMMENT: Whatever Govt decides, I am fully prepared to relinquish my semi-automatics.

Liam Dann: Dairy to rescue as property boom economy falters

COMMENT: As risks around domestic economy grow, export prices once again come to rescue.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Semi-automatics must be banned

COMMENT: Ban and buy back these massacre weapons. We could've done this 20 years ago.

Pulling up NZ's socks takes whole nation

Comment: Our environment depends on our economy, which in turn depends on our reputation.