Hooray. Aucklanders finally have Queens Wharf. But is the best use for it really a new terminal for an industry that could be in terminal decline?
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Nightmare on New North Road
John Key was anywhere but New North Rd on Saturday. For National's leader, Melissa Lee's post-by-election wake in the heart of Mt Albert held all the attraction of a swine flu support group
Read MoreWhy publish 'Veitch Breakup' Story? And many other media questions
A whole bunch of things in the New Zealand media and blogs are quite perplexing to watch from the other side of the world... For example, what's with the Kiwi media's swine flu excitement?
Read MoreNorth Korea couldn't care less
North Korea's latest bargaining chips, two US journalists, are a human dimension to an out of control nuclear situation which has left the world's diplomats stumped—again. It is now a waiting game to see what they are worth
Read MoreThe hide of Hide
Local government minister Rodney Hide didn't earn the nickname "Rhino" for nothing. Still trying to ramrod Super-City government into Auckland, he is now taking on the rest of New Zealand
Read MoreJohn Key and his failing instincts
Are the Prime Minister's instincts all they're cracked up to be?
Read MoreThe stench of death now hangs on Gordon Brown
It is Gordon Brown's own political cowardice that will finally do him in
Read MoreTiananmen is no forgotten revolution
Twenty years after the pro-democracy uprising in China's Tiananmen Square the Communist Party remains haunted by its reaction
Read MoreUPDATED: Crosby v Hager: there is something very wrong with our defamation laws
An 11 month legal battle with political consultants Crosby/Textor during an election year reveals the trouble with our defamation laws
Read MoreBaby boomers hold New Zealand hostage... again
The baby boomers are at it again, and this time it's the Super Fund they're twisting to their own advantage. I'm fed up living in the shadow of the spoilt generation
Read MoreNot too late to avoid a political expenses scandal
We have seen Russel Norman's taxi bill. Now all of his colleagues in parliament need to show us theirs – and tidy up the rules while they are at it
Read MoreChrist's College 1 - Conservation nil
Conservation tends to suffer under National governments, and this year's budget was true to form. Meanwhile, some private schools may be saved from extinction
Read MoreBudget '09: First impressions
Bill English's budget kept it tight, predictable and conservative. Given the times, that was a rather risky thing to do
Read MoreDanger – high voltage market power
Power company profiteering has cost New Zealanders $4.3 billion since 2001 – and the Commerce Commission has spent more than three years learning that it’s powerless to stop it happening. Why?
Good Detective Work Relies on Good Detectives
You do not have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe that the police's Brash "stolen emails" inquiry review is a good thing
Read MoreIt's not rocket science, it's journalism: The public's right to know should win every time
It's not like I get a lot of time off with my family, but I've given up a couple of hours of my Saturday morning because senior, respected journalists should not be allowed to take the side of secrecy without someone calling them on it
Read MoreGood PR relies on bad journalism: the "stolen e-mails" story
The latest reporting on Don Brash's "stolen emails" has again exposed National's political spin machine and a media with a curious attitude towards the public's right to know
Read MoreThe mother of all parliamentary problems
Westminster is both the legal and the spiritual mother of New Zealand's Parliament. But just at the moment, it looks to be ripping itself apart. Where she goes, will we go? Where she falls, will we fall?
Read MoreMulroney the foxymoron
A former Canadian PM is the latest politician to prove "political judgment" is an oxymoron
Read MoreRankin is not the issue
If the government has a strategy for the Families Commission, then allowing the Christine Rankin row to run its course is not the way to advance it
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