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Orchestra funding strikes the wrong note
The battle over public funding for our major orchestras has all the ingredients of comic opera, if not farce.
Taxpayers stung by overspending on mobile phones
Civil servants' 'roaming' fees on phones costing public $800,000.
Unholy alliance: National's united opposition
Labour, the Greens and NZ First look uncannily like a united opposition as they join forces in a three-pronged assault on John Key's administration. Jonathan Milne goes behind the scenes with the key players in the plot to overthrow the Government.
Budget: Our big fat zero Budget
Finance Minister Bill English describes it as "probably the tightest Budget in the last 20 years" while opposition parties have labelled it as "zero hope" and drab. So is National's new budget any good?
Paul Little: Health industry depends on people being ill
In this year's Budget, Health Minister Tony Ryall told us, health receives a big funding boost.