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Sir Ian Taylor: 'All gone wrong' - the Labour Party I used to know
OPINION: PM's magazine cover 'tone-deaf' during a cost of living crisis.
'Cheerleader-in-Chief': PM explains her role in ramping up trade after Covid
OPINION: Trade missions have given us greater resilience in turbulent times, the PM writes
Claire Trevett: The PM takes on the farmers, crime and the Sisyphean task of getting a good week
The PM was never going to win over the farmers but is Hamilton West closer than expected?
Jamie Mackay: How will Fieldays receive the PM and Labour this year?
OPINION: Fieldays will be a litmus test for the Government.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: Where’s The Finance?
Opinion: WTF has been translated at COP27 as Where’s the Finance?
Dr Shane Reti: Rural hospitals have highest ED nurse shortages
Provincial hospitals have been some of the worst hit by nursing shortages in EDs.
Todd Muller: Time to celebrate Kiwi farmers
Opinion: This has been a bloody tough year for farmers.
Bruce Cotterill: Three Waters - where is the outrage?
OPINION: Cynical late Friday afternoon Three Waters news dump went unreported on TV news.
Ewan McGregor: Is the Overseas Investment Commission doing its job?
The corruption of our farm landscapes due to pines is too big a price to pay.
Simon Wilson: National’s approach to climate is a massive failure for farmers
National's complaints about the Government's farm policies show very poor leadership.
Opinion: Why this forester says convert fewer farms to forestry
Opinion: Two simple things NZ can do to reduce farm-to-forestry conversion.
A dairy farmer's view: Govt emissions pricing proposal flawed
OPINION: There are many ways to reduce emissions and become more efficient.
Opinion: A farmer’s request for help from our urban friends
Opinion: Steve Schmack says all Kiwis should be concerned about emissions pricing scheme.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: New Zealand agriculture is steering the global waka
Opinion: Recent COAG meeting highlights NZ's world-leading approach to ag and climate.
Jim van der Poel: He Waka Eke Noa - seven significant setbacks
Opinion: DairyNZ chair lists seven significant Govt changes to He Waka Eke Noa.
Shane Reti: Public won't like it if Three Waters legislation is rushed through
MP Shane Reti has concerns over the haste of the Three Waters legislation.
Pete Fitz-Herbert: The problem with 'coconut milk’
Opinion: What's in a name? Can a nut be milked? Should I care?
Opinion: Emissions tax will make our food more expensive
The emissions tax will have the wrong effect, says Helen Craig
Mike Hosking: Cop this - no one on global stage cares what we do
OPINION: Climate change meeting No 27 will lead to nothing.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: Is this our generation’s subsidy-free moment?
Opinion: Govt’s response to HWEN proposals results in misunderstanding, muddle and misery.
Jamie Mackay: Why this virtue signalling Govt is so reviled by the rural sector
The past two years have been the most divisive of my lifetime, writes Jamie Mackay.
Peter Berg: Why Aotearoa’s native forests are worth fighting for
Opinion: Tāne’s Tree Trust on his hard work to build national support for native forests.
Samantha Motion: Protests trump apathy as climate disaster looms
Opinion: Perhaps 'extreme' protests are needed to snap us out of our cognitive dissonance.
Opinion: Why farmers are protesting against the wrong people at the wrong time
Opinion: The rural sector has become dangerously polarised in New Zealand.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: Climate change, confusion, and hot air
Opinion: There are no easy answers to New Zealand or the World’s GHG emissions.
Damien O’Connor: Emissions pricing scheme should be welcomed
OPINION: Agriculture Minister outlines the case for NZ's high-sustainability credentials.
Graham Pinnell: One simple solution to farm emissions controversy
The obvious solution is to go back to where this all started.
Simon Wilson: The fallout over Govt's unambitious, misguided plan to reduce farm emissions
The new farm emissions plan doesn't satisfy anything, but that doesn't make it right.
Paula Bennett: Burp tax will take meat, dairy off the family table
Those who are struggling to fill their pantry will suffer the increased prices most.
Luke Kirkness: Hindsight won't help us in the fight against climate change
OPINION: Surely we can all see the climate is causing chaos in New Zealand.
Owen Jennings: Farmers mired in confusion over emissions
OPINION: 'Do farmers get any credit? Not a word. What do you really want, New Zealand?'
Marcus Musson: Medium term forestry outlook pessimistic
Despite current concerns, the long-term outlook for the forestry industry looks solid.
Opinion: Our farming sector shouldn't be the world's guinea pigs
I'm not buying the Government's big sell job on this plan, writes John MacDonald.