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Latest from John Roughan on New Zealand
John Roughan: Rugby's mental game hardest to win
COMMENT: This has been a magnificent World Cup for rugby.
John Roughan: Caution keeps economy strong
COMMENT: Reserve Bank must cop some responsibility for low business confidence.
John Roughan: All taxpayers might be in for good news this week
COMMENT: Cullen's capital gains tax just might reduce the top rate of income tax.
Government should not mess with success
COMMENT: Economic success, like great tennis, needs to be appreciated.
John Roughan: Pike River re-entry now ridiculously expensive
COMMENT: A $7.2 million Pike River re-entry plan has somehow become $36 million.
Judging the Government's judgement calls
COMMENT: How rigorously would a Labour minister check asylum seekers situations.
John Roughan: Waterfront stadium like wine and beer mix
COMMENT: A sunken stadium is not the feature the waterfront demands.
John Roughan: Labour needs to treat baby carefully
COMMENT: The public would not respond well to crass exploitation of our royal baby.
John Roughan: This generation needs more than a nuclear moment
COMMENT: If we are going to lead the world against climate change, let's hope it follows.
English wants to retire despite success
OPINION: National's high polls make it hard for Bill English to step down.
John Roughan: Can Ardern juggle ruling country and baby?
OPINION: Can a PM function with a baby? She will have her work cut out.
John Roughan: Trump and Brexit did not win our election
COMMENT: Let's not believe we voted to be a less open, confident country.
All Blacks and Kiwi sailors set the pace
COMMENT: New Zealanders are battling for the soul of two sports this weekend.
John Roughan: English has found his feet
COMMENT: Tinkering with the superannuation age has done National no harm.
Not exactly action stations on typhoid
COMMENT: News of typhoid outbreak didn't put medical centres on alert, writes John Roughan
John Roughan: So much for tunnel vision
COMMENT: Traffic lights will be needed to control the flow in the Waterview tunnels.
John Roughan: Let miners rest in peace
COMMENT: Every time Bernie Monk and his Pike River people come pressing politicians for the mine to be re-entered I wonder why.
John Roughan: Fine way for a PM to go
COMMENT: It's just two months since John Key resigned and it feels like a year. The shock passed so quickly that many now might deny they felt it.
Roughan: Media contributed to madness
COMMENT: There is frustration as well as fury in the messages mainstream media are receiving. Somehow we need to work out what is not being said.
John Roughan: English hits wrong notes
COMMENT: John Key's parting advice for Bill English was, "trust your instincts". It is good advice but I'm not sure English is taking it.
Roughan: Bad time to be picked for Cabinet
COMMENT: This is not a good time to come into the front line of a govt if you are a young, ambitious politician with all the attributes to be a great PM.
Roughan: Fighter lurks beneath English's dry surface
COMMENT: As we farewell a gifted PM we are about to get a more combative one. John Key's politics have been emollient, Bill English is abrasive.
John Roughan: Memories of Muldoon in Trump win
COMMENT: The amazing thing about democracy, when you stop to think about, is that it makes the right decision far more often than not.
John Roughan: Boxing no 'showcase'
COMMENT: We in this country are suckers for every suggestion the world will be watching something we do.
John Roughan: Doctors think we're dimwits
COMMENT: Like most in my trade I have done time on the industrial relations round. Unlike most, I had a tragic need to understand the issues in disputes.
John Roughan: Am I any different to Trump?
COMMENT: All political parties are determined to give me a benefit I don't need, what's the point of refusing?
John Roughan: Puritanism now rules public debate
COMMENT: Working in the media these days feels like being a prosecutor in a court where the defence never turns up.