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<i>John Roughan:</i> Coromandel can bear more mining

John Roughan writes that the Coromandel peninsula's beauty is not exceptional and doesn't warrant particular protection.

<i>John Roughan:</i> I spy something beginning with lunacy

<i>John Roughan:</i> Who'd be mayor if you can head CCO

<i>John Roughan:</i> Blame game fuelling leaky home fiasco

<i>John Roughan:</i> At last a leader fights back

<i>John Roughan:</i> MMP has changed little

<i>John Roughan:</i> Less will be more for city's front deck

The powers that be are growing anxious over the lack of inspiring design ideas for Queens Wharf.

<i>John Roughan:</i> National standards will expose worst teachers

<i>John Roughan:</i> Spare us any more tearful spectacles

<i>John Roughan:</i> One year on, the new guy is the star

<i>John Roughan:</i> How phones drive you to distraction

<i>John Roughan:</i> Maori TV fits the Cup's Pacific flavour

<i>John Roughan</i>: Barbaric spectacle should be banned

Should boxing be banned? Until a week ago I'd have said no.

<i>John Roughan:</i> Did we really need to send this faker to jail?

<i>John Roughan</i>: Where is the 'creative destruction' promised?