Matthew Hooton: Helen Clark’s anti-Americanism on show
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Fran O’Sullivan: Taxing capital gains - Aussies can, why not us?
OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Fran O'Sullivan.
Richard Prebble: Two speeches, two contrasting views of race relations
OPINION: Two maiden speeches give very different views.
Fran O’Sullivan: Winston Peters’ Red Sea move brings NZ and the US closer
OPINION: New Zealand’s interests are three-fold: Economic, moralistic and loyalistic.
Matthew Hooton: Apologies needed for Labour to be taken seriously
OPINION: But Labour’s best bet remains Hipkins and the status quo.
7 Questions, six CEOs: Defining or devastating? Why 2024 shapes as NZ media‘s most pivotal year
The CEOS of MediaWorks, Stuff, Are Media, GroupM, D3 and the owner of The Spinoff open up.
Mary Holm: Should I pay off the mortgage or put all my money into KiwiSaver?
OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Mary Holm.
Juha Saarinen: How the chip war and the future of AI will decide world power
OPINION: Western export controls notwithstanding, the Chinese aren’t giving up.
Richard Prebble: What I predict will happen in 2024
OPINION: Ongoing technological change is a certainty.
Steven Joyce: Going off the grid just the break we all need
OPINION: A trip to Fiordland provided a conservative insight and a chance to disconnect.
Fran O'Sullivan: Christopher Luxon needs to embrace chairman’s role
OPINION: Rising pressures will require the PM to move beyond his current leadership style.
7 Questions: Media CEOs open up - ‘A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world’
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Matthew Hooton: Why education reforms will be the most important change this government makes
OPINION: Complete disengagement from school is growing and average performance is falling.
Damien Venuto: The $1b Countdown mistake Woolworths made a decade ago
OPINION: Five of the top columns of the year from Damien Venuto.
Opinion: The business case for looking after staff mental health
OPINION: Banks offer support to those struggling to retain workers.
Richard Prebble: NZ needs to break the negative economic cycle
OPINION: All we got for Christmas was rain and bad news.
Juha Saarinen: 2024 will be an even wilder ride for tech
OPINION: Job layoffs, massive deals and AI have all been features of 2023.
Liam Dann: Everything that will definitely happen in 2024 revealed
Will your mortgage rates fall? Will a robot take your job? Will you finally go Keto?
Bruce Cotterill: Why we need a good dose of national pride
OPINION: We have plenty to be proud of. We’re just not very good at talking about it.
High-flyer: Top CEO on leadership, life, trouble at 40,000ft - and lifting NZ out of its funk
'We are fit for summer, but we won’t be taking our eyes off the ball, I can tell you.'
Mary Holm: How to find out if you are owed missing money
OPINION: Plus inspiring letters from readers to help get you on the right track.
Mike Munro: Mini-Budget was triumph of spin over substance
OPINION: The six-page document was mainly about what’s to be cut or cancelled.
Media's chaotic year - the naughty and nice list; 1000+ jobs set to go; Sky re-signs top commentators
Ad agency's big TAB win; TVNZ's new CEO & annual report; Vote for media moment of 2023.
Matthew Hooton: Nicola Willis should aim for 25 per cent cuts to the public service
OPINION: This week’s $7.5b in cuts can only be phase one.
Revealed: TVNZ's new chief executive - its first female boss
The new boss will lead a massive transformation at the state broadcaster.
Editorial: Grim outlook no surprise but political hyperbole unhelpful
OPINION: National must be cautious not to let gloomy rhetoric undercut confidence.
Scott Gilmour: Poverty - what can be done?
OPINION: Scott Gilmour asks how we get the Government to learn from the nonprofit sector.
Richard Prebble: Regulation shake-up needed to fix ferry cost blow-out
OPINION: Act leader David Seymour should get his teeth into the earthquake regulations.
Opinion: NZ commercial radio a lifeline during emergencies
Opinion: Would it matter if your car radio dial was empty tomorrow morning?
Christopher Niesche: Australia’s corporate scandals have exposed leadership failures
Optus, Qantas and PwC have all been embroiled in controversy.
Liam Dann: Inflation, cyclones and politics - an entirely unreliable 2023 year in review
OPINION: It was worse than expected then better than expected but then it was worse again.
Steven Joyce: Labour’s record - so much spent, so little achieved
OPINION: Our reputation for building things is in the toilet.
Fran O'Sullivan: Cook Strait ferry debacle another sign of Labour’s loose spending
OPINION: But the new Government needs to move quickly on a ferry replacement plan.
Editorial: What price security on Cook Strait?
OPINION: Times are tough, but skimping on key infrastructure is a false economy.