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Ideas on bargaining, energy, health and rail out of step with our times.
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Cecilia Robinson: Let's draw the line on another lockdown
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Mat Brown: Good design will help our cities grow up, not out
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Fran O'Sullivan: How Collins could have last laugh on Bridges
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Steven Joyce: Good can yet come from National implosion
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