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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
05 September, 2011
A personal experiance of internet scams and why we should rename them.
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
04 September, 2011
Opinion on why current student loan system beats the old free education system
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
04 September, 2011
Opinion on the suposed man drought and some womens efforts to find the perfect mate.
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
04 September, 2011
Opinion piece that all conspiracy theories are just a conspiracy
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
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Submitted by: Bruce Lightfoot | Categories: Columns
24 July, 2011
If only New Zealand had a national 'dumb debt' feedback loop we might actually have a chance of turning around the economy, writes economics commentator Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
18 June, 2011
When borrowers and savers see the latest Greek riots or pictures of stressed stock market traders they should also think about a potential rise in borrowing costs and a possible slump in the global economy.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
18 June, 2011
For New Zealand's future, we need some long term strategy to build high-paid and interesting jobs that earn foreign exchange revenues so we can start growing our wealth as a country.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
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09 June, 2011
A trip to a gallery with our pre-schoolers got me thinking about the value of art to our littlies.
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Submitted by: Phillippa van de Steeg | Categories: Families , Viewpoints, Columns
11 May, 2011
Social media is no longer a luxury extra for small businesses to use as a promotional tool, it's where their customers expect to find them. This story outlines the case for small businesses to get on social media.
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Submitted by: Fiona A Bowker | Categories: Ad/Media, Small Business, Columns, Social Media
30 March, 2011
Our output did not increase in the second half of last year yet our spending in total and our wages rose over that period, as did population and spending per capita. So how did we manage that?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy
14 March, 2011
This is a personal story about the scariness of coincidence, quakes, tsunamis and "bioforests".
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Submitted by: Mike Smith | Categories: Columns
27 January, 2011
Social analyst Scotty Donaldson looks at how the media's portrayal of life encourages people to have unrealistically high expectations which they can't meet. This can cause people to have self esteem issues and lose the lust for life.
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Submitted by: Scott Donaldson | Categories: Fashion, Life & Style, Viewpoints, Columns, Tips/Advice, Opinion, Wellbeing
20 December, 2010
The New Zealand government seems to be taking a young man's approach to debt at the moment and this is a dangerous thing to do as we age not-so-gracefully in an increasingly volatile economic world.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Politics & Government, Science & Technology
14 December, 2010
'The irony for the Reserve Bank is that this week's Monetary Policy Statement made clear that its monetary stimulus of a low Official Cash Rate is not having as much effect as expected because home owners are not adding to their already crushing debts.'
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
08 December, 2010
In recent weeks something has started brewing again out in the depths of the New Zealand economy and it smells disappointingly familiar. The housing market has started to simmer again,and many of the same problems are repeating themselves, writes business commentator Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Property, Columns
23 November, 2010
It's like the good old days all over again. Or the bad old days, depending on who you are, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Property, Columns
15 November, 2010
How can New Zealand possibly rebalance our economy when our high value export sector is being demolished and businesses are not borrowing and investing?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
15 November, 2010
England's recent win over the Wallabies has been a breath of fresh air for the game of rugby. Both the actual victory and the exciting way this was achieved now means there is another contender to challenge the Southern Hemisphere strangehold on rugby. Scotty Donaldson looks at the impact of this win and why it is great for the game.
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Submitted by: Scott Donaldson | Categories: Rugby, Opinion, Viewpoints, Columns, Reviews, Tips/Advice, Rugby
09 November, 2010
Thanks to Speights and Toyota I've had to explain venereal disease and bestiality to my 8 and 10-year-old sons, writes Amanda Cropp.
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Submitted by: Amanda Cropp | Categories: Columns, Families , Ad/Media
09 November, 2010
New Zealanders have lost faith in financial advisors. That's the clear message in RaboDirect's Financial Confidence index for September, which showed confidence dropping again from a year ago, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
31 October, 2010
The drama around Warner Bros' decision to film the Hobbit movies in New Zealand was focused on the union blacklist, but the drumbeat of background noise was all about the New Zealand dollar's rise vs the US dollar, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
25 October, 2010
Confidence and trust in the financial architecture of a nation is a delicate and ephemeral thing. It's also crucial to the long term sustainability of any modern economy and society, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
17 October, 2010
The 'new normal' is beginning to dawn on consumers and borrowers before it dawns on policymakers and the media, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns
10 October, 2010
It's worth looking at the economic forces behind China's great land grab that are creating such turmoil in global capital and currency markets. They highlight a great clash between the forces of capitalism and nationalism and between a rising global power in China and a declining global power in America, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy, Asia, New Zealand
07 October, 2010
Labour intends to remove GST of fresh fruit and vegetables. A column by Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Politics & Government
06 October, 2010
The efficient market hypothesis has been proved wrong. We now face international currency wars, mass money printing and the eventual restructuring of the global currency landscape, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Politics & Government, Columns
03 October, 2010
New Zealanders and our policymakers seem remarkably relaxed about the implications of the turmoil that threatens to push our currency through 80 USc in the coming months and destroy any exporters that are not reliant on booming commodity prices, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy
30 September, 2010
It's time for me to recant and to say what I've been thinking for months: the economic god of completely free markets and capital flows is not worth believing in anymore and we must look for other things to believe in and do.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy, Politics & Government
21 September, 2010
Does the method by which we shovel food into our hungry faces influence what we choose to eat? Asks Nick Houldsworth.
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Submitted by: Nick Houldsworth | Categories: Columns, Food & Wine
20 September, 2010
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but when various small town electricity networks get the priority nod for negotiations with Crown Fibre Holdings for involvement in the Government’s flagship broadband programme, a suspicious person smells a rat.
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Submitted by: Pattrick Smellie | Categories: Columns, Industry, Economy
20 September, 2010
Alan Bollard has essentially told us that the economy is all about the debt. Politics may also soon become all about the debt too, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Columns, Economy, Politics & Government
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Politics & Government, Economy
07 September, 2010
The creation of the 'Save our Farms' campaign to block foreign ownership of New Zealand farm land has fired up a debate that needs to be had, writes business commentator Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Farming, Columns
03 September, 2010
If you had suggested to me ten years ago that I would one day own a dog, I can imagine myself saying, "You must be joking - no way!" Times change, writes Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Rural Life
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Politics & Government, Industry, Horticulture
26 August, 2010
NZ health minister Tony Ryall "Gets Smart". A column by Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Politics & Government, Columns, Nation, Health
25 August, 2010
Starting a business in New Zealand is easy - the World Bank tells us we are the best around in their Doing Business rankings. But we can do even better, let's put three new things on the companies website: standard documents, official shareholder registers and basic governance tools.
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Submitted by: Lance Wiggs | Categories: Economy, Industry, Small Business, Management, Columns
22 August, 2010
The issue of whether to make KiwiSaver compulsory is now firmly on the agenda after Prime Minister John Key gave the green light for a government-sanctioned Pensions and Saving Working group to look at the issue. But is New Zealand ready and willing, asks Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Politics & Government, Economy, Columns
20 August, 2010
Chris Carter's flight of fancy has probably done more to cement Phil Goff’s leadership than Goff has himself, but it won't be enough for Labour to win an election, writes Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Politics & Government
16 August, 2010
Our national driving behaviour is at odds with the 'easy going' Kiwi character we present to the world. At best, it increases congestion. At worst, it reinforces our position as a social and cultural backwater, writes Nick Houldsworth.
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Submitted by: Nick Houldsworth | Categories: Columns, Viewpoints, New Zealand, Humour & Satire
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Politics & Government, Columns, Farming
13 August, 2010
Surveying Northland for minerals. A column and cartoon by Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Industry, Columns, Rural, Energy & Minerals, New Zealand, Politics & Government
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, New Zealand, Animals
05 August, 2010
For as long as I can remember, there's been national angst over what to do about superannuation. But the best remedy has always been to... make the economy grow faster, writes Pattrick Smellie.
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Submitted by: Pattrick Smellie | Categories: Economy, Columns, Economy
03 August, 2010
Academic debates about history and economics send most people to sleep very quickly. It's like Mogadon without the drugs. But what if you could be more confident about fixing or floating your mortgage if you knew who would win these debates?
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns, Economy
26 July, 2010
We have two Chinese New Zealand MPs but we don't have Chinese faces on our television. There is no Mandarin spoken on National Radio or National television. Yet mandarin is set to become our second most spoken language within 15 years, writes Bernard Hickey.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Education, Economy, Columns, Economy
16 July, 2010
Extending the ETS into prisons: "Non smokers could be given carbon credits and smokers forced to pay a carbon tax," writes Dave Wolland.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Politics & Government, Environment & Conservation, Columns, Law & Courts, Viewpoints, Nation, Science & Technology
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Gadgets, Columns
09 June, 2010
Story about the successful biological control of current rodent infestation.
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Submitted by: Chris 'Worzel' Sellars | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Humour & Satire
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Science & Technology, Columns, Nation, Science & Technology
07 June, 2010
It's quite possible that this time next week when you sit down to read your paper with a cup of coffee and some toast that you'll be asking yourself whether you can still afford the coffee and toast.
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Submitted by: Bernard Hickey | Categories: Economy, Columns, Property
30 May, 2010
I was hoping to get myself one or several rabbits for the pot, and to do so I was soft-footing it along the edge of a large paddock of new grass that backed on to a big section of bush running up into the Hakarimata Ranges, west of Ngaruawahia.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Columns, Recreation, Rural Life, New Zealand
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Science & Technology, Columns
27 May, 2010
There's a special kind of clarity that comes with a frosty morning, writes Kingsley Field.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Columns, Features , Rural Life, New Zealand
26 May, 2010
The touching story of two wild bush pigs that find a home with a farmer. Incorporates a moral about the pitfalls of civilization.
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Submitted by: Chris 'Worzel' Sellars | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Animals, Humour & Satire
26 May, 2010
Country Critters installment no 2. Humorous stories submitted by creatures of my acquaintance.
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Submitted by: Chris 'Worzel' Sellars | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Animals, Humour & Satire
26 May, 2010
The first of my 'Country Critters' series. Short humorous tales told by the animals themselves and plagiarized by me.
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Submitted by: Chris 'Worzel' Sellars | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Animals, Humour & Satire
12 May, 2010
An account of a short meeting with Satan. Possibly fictional.
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Submitted by: Chris 'Worzel' Sellars | Categories: Columns, Humour & Satire
12 May, 2010
Does naming cows help them be more productive? Dave Wolland finds there's a lot to be said for friendly milking shed.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Cartoons, Animals
10 May, 2010
What with drought, floods and fluctuating exchanges rates, many dairy farmers in are now having to think about where Fonterra is heading again. The prospect of a rapid increase in farm ownership by foreign businesses has also crept back onto the radar and this issue will be a mixed blessing for those starting up or leaving the industry.
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Submitted by: Dave Wolland | Categories: Columns, Economy, Farming
26 April, 2010
It amazes me how many people have low self-esteem. It is the basis of happiness and success yet so many people lack it. Parents especially need to have a wonderful, balanced self esteem – if they don’t, how can they possibly nurture one in their children?
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Submitted by: Allison O'Neill | Categories: Families , Columns, Wellbeing
08 March, 2010
Outdoors columnist Kingsley Field remembers what it was like to be a boy on a farm when he was young, and wonders how often boys today get the room to strike out and find their own boundaries.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Families , Columns, Rural Life
08 March, 2010
Outdoors columnist Kinsgley Field finds out what smart hunters stash in their backpacks when they head into the bush come deer hunting season.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Hunting
08 March, 2010
Outdoors columnist Kingsley Field writes about the harrier we so often see as we drive along highways and country roads but so seldom take the time to find out more about.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Animals
08 March, 2010
Outdoors columnist Kingsley Field talks about duck shooting season and why tens of thousands of New Zealanders, aged 10 to 90, eagerly anticipate this time of year. Ideal for publication in early May.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Hunting
08 March, 2010
Outdoor columnist Kingsley Field sets out at the beginning of the hunting season keeping his eye out for hares... and a dinner of hare back steaks.
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Submitted by: Kingsley Field | Categories: Columns, Rural Life, Hunting
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02 February, 2010
How can we compete if staff and students of large organisations are routinely blocked from social websites and have few, if any, web tools to help them work efficiently online?
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Submitted by: Julie Starr | Categories: Columns
