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John Roughan: Asset sales go ahead on trust
Dame Sian Elias and fellow judges of the Supreme Court made a remarkable declaration of confidence in you and me and our adherence to a constitution this week.
Dame Sian Elias and fellow judges of the Supreme Court made a remarkable declaration of confidence in you and me and our adherence to a constitution this week.
Although it takes some swallowing, the Prime Minister's insistence that there was no plan B had the Supreme Court blocked the part-sale of Mighty River Power has to be taken at face value.
All manner of people, policies and practices are being blamed for the near-collapse of Solid Energy, the state-owned coal company that is burdened with $389 million in debt.
A Parliamentary committee has recommended a starting wage for youth be passed into law.
National has risen above 50 per cent again in the latest 3 News political poll, while Labour and the Greens polled 43 per cent between them - well short of a majority.
Hekia Parata or no Hekia Parata in the job, Cabinet ministers had few illusions from the start.
The Herald met Nikki Kaye in 2013, she was a fresh-faced Cabinet Minister.
The lawyer hand-picked by Minister of Justice Judith Collins for a top state service job is an old friend of her husband, says a private investigator who used to work for both men.
So coos the sugar-encrusted, but hollow-sounding real estate-speak intent on seducing would-be home buyers and hard-headed investors into succumbing to the charms of life at Hobsonville Pt.
In between overseas trips, Murray McCully talks to political editor Audrey Young about his hectic year ahead.
Carter takes over as Speaker of the House despite Labour move to install Mallard
Times are very tough in manufacturing. The global recession has merely contributed an additional woe to a sector whose share of economic activity has been declining for more than two decades.
Police allege an illegal immigrant living here on a false Australian passport was also able to obtain three other false passports - including two from New Zealand.
Prime Minister John Key was left in little doubt that there was at least one place he wasn't the preferred Prime Minister: at Ratana Pa.
Hone Harawira says dumped Cabinet Minister Phil Heatley is a "smarmy p****'' who jokes about the poor, but the Whangarei MP says he takes poverty seriously.
Disappointed but unbowed, Whangarei MP Phil Heatley says his dumping as a Cabinet minister means he will have more time to concentrate on his electorate.
John Key's promotion of Simon Bridges, Nikki Kaye, Amy Adams and Jonathan Coleman is designed to rejuvenate and modernise the National Party Cabinet before next year's election.
The first was being asked to chair the finance and expenditure committee.
If that spectacular display did not make Mr Dotcom a household name, the New Zealand police soon did.
It is said that Napoleon, on being told of the impressive attributes of a new general, asked, "But is he lucky?"
This has been another testing year for New Zealand businesses as they rock along the decade of "grumpy growth".
Newly released Treasury papers show it was sceptical about the chances charter schools will improve student performance .
Normally, talkback in the week before Christmas is full of callers ringing in with lovely stories of family get-togethers and their own personal Yuletide traditions, and we wish each other well for the holiday season. Nice, warm, fuzzy stuff.
Several months ago, Education Minister Hekia Parata called a meeting in her office to discuss the vexed issue of Christchurch school restructuring. Post Primary Teachers' Association president Robin Duff was among those invited to the evening meeting.