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Brian Fallow: Digital skills are essential skills
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Richard Prebble: Andrew Little's health reforms will achieve little
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Steven Joyce: Labour drifting along on a road to nowhere
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Fran O'Sullivan: Air NZ expectations letter? Return to sender
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Mary Holm: Nesting or investing - what's the point of owning a home?
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Matthew Hooton: My message to National - and how to avoid another leadership fiasco
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Brian Fallow: Climate change plan - emissions impossible for farmers?
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Richard Prebble: Everything I predicted is happening - the credit boom will bust us
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Juha Saarinen: Will Google's plan tame the cookie monster?
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Oliver Hartwich: The politics of legal sausage-making
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Michael Wood: Why Govt has taken track it has with Auckland rail
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Fran O'Sullivan: Grant Robertson tightens Govt's grip on Air NZ
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Brian Fallow: Expect Reserve Bank to keep things loose
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