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Todd Muller: There needs to be a reset on how we value critical workers

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Michael Baker: Basic courtesy to wear a mask

403

Michael Barnett: Business isn't sitting back with its hand out

404

Craig Renney: We have to tackle inflation for low income families

405

Dr John McKie: Solutions to chronic surgery rely on foreign workers

406

Brooke van Velden: Double standards for healthy home unacceptable

407

Filipa Payne: "Common sense approach" doesn't mean legislative change for 501s

408

Jeremy Smith: UK visa is great, but we need more countries included

409

Andrew Hoggard: FTA with EU sets precedent NZ folds easily

410

Geoff Cunningham: Health reforms have made no difference for GPs

411

Chlöe Swarbrick: Kiwis want a health-based approach to drug laws

412

Greg Harford: Retail should be able to decide it's own mask rules

413

Brooke van Velden: Distressing to see fall-out from Roe v Wade reppeal

414

Dr Charlotte Chambers: DHB staff struggles been a long time coming

415

Floyd du Plessis: Spiking violence in prisons driver behind 800 staff vacancies

416

Anna Burns-Francis: The latest revelations from the Jan 6th hearings

417

Steve Maharey: Covid made an existing school attendance problem worse

418

Mark Mitchell: Enough is enough when it comes to gang violence

419

Geof Nightingale: Tax proposals to hit the rich were poorly designed

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Geof Nightingale: They were badly designed and targeting small and medium sized businesses

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Selah Hart: It's a silent addiction that many people suffer from

422

Peter Dunne: This is the end of a remarkable period of time

423

Jason Walls: US trip success measure shown in American tourist numbers

424

Steven Joyce: Adrian Orr is putting out the inflation fire with an OCR hike

425

Nicole McKee: We need gang control orders now

426

Craig Renney: What are the implications of the cost of living payment?

427

Murray Groot: How Australian election can impact NZ's relationship

428

Murray Olds: Will people believe what Morrison has to say if he gets re-elected?

429

Grant Duncan: If the poll trends were to continue, it would be logical to look at a Cabinet reshuffle

430

Nicola Willis: National not anticipating a silver bullet Budget

431

Simon Watts: $21m for Three Waters consultants is wasteful

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Poto Williams: We're targeting firearm regulations in this budget

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Kerri Nuku: Lack of clarity from DHBs leaves nurses without pay

434

Paul Buchanan: Putin won't officially declare war unless he has to

435

Nanaia Mahuta: Co-governance on Three Waters reflects our Treaty obligations

436

Murray Olds: Australian election heating up

437

Stephen Hoadley: We could be on the verge of the next cold war

438

Dr Shane Reti: Government doesn't know what Māori are concerned about

439

Jason Walls: The PM's first overseas venture in 2 years

440

Andrew Hoggard: We need the option of GMO

441

Michael Barnett: We need a plan to recover the CBD

442

Professor Robert Patman: What Boris Johnson's visit to Ukraine shows the world

443

Andrew Schwass: International tourism has missed the boat for this year

444

Ricardo Menéndez March: How do we bridge the welfare gap?

445

Professor Michael Baker: What do we really need from the traffic light system?

446

Peter Dunne: Can we afford to be fussy about tourists?

447

Dr Paul Buchanan: Russia won't win this war

448

Professor Robert Patman: Putin's "Colossal Strategic Error"

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David Seymour: No more MIQ for unvaccinated Kiwis

450

Andrew Little: Measles vaccines going to waste

451

Eugenie Sage: New Recycling Proposals

452

Niamh O'Flynn: Flotilla arriving in Helena Bay

453

Liam Dann: Cost of Living Crisis

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Al Gillespie: Putin is completely unpredictable with how he's behaving

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Christopher Luxon: The average kiwi family is going backwards

456

Helen Clark: The question is, why now?

457

Grant Robertson: The denunciation of Russia has been worldwide, and clear

458

Lisette Reymer: Ukraine concerned the west is abandoning them

459

Helen Petousis-Harris: We don't want to be making policies based on back-of-the-envelope calculations

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David Seymour: We need to ask: do our policies make sense?

461

Anna Burns-Francis: Maybe the US doesn't have the upper hand

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Matthew Hooton on the anti-mandate protest

463

Anna Burns-Francis: The state of US politics - the RNC, Pence, and Political Discourse

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Sir Ian Taylor: "They have questioned my integrity again"

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Pita Tipene: We don't regret holding the event virtually

466

Dr Alexey Muraviev: Don't expect NATO to come to Ukraine's rescue

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Chris Cahill: New Zealand not having a gun registry "lacks common sense"

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Matthew Tutakaki: Time, not money will get minority groups vaccinated

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Professor Michael Baker: Reduce booster eligibility to three months

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Christopher Luxon: National would reluctantly go red

471

David Seymour: Looking back on a great year for himself and ACT

472

Professor Michael Baker: Need to keep Omicron out of New Zealand

473

Mark Mitchell: National's Police spokesperson says the Government have got the Northland checkpoints completely wrong

474

Rod Jackson: Epidemiologist says it's too early to change colours in the Traffic Light System

475

Nicola Willis: How National are going to win the next election

476

Judith Collins: Emissions have gone up under this Government

477

James Shaw: Small countries acting together makes bigger difference than USA

478

Professor Michael Baker: Alert levels likely to remain the same

479

Murray Olds: Victoria case numbers drop; 'massive change' once state hits milestone

480

Steve Smith: Northland Chamber of Commerce on the possibility of moving the region to Level 3

481

Judith Collins: Why she's so dismayed with Labour

482

Peeni Henare: First-time vaccinated Maori is just as important as the total number

483

Rod Jackson: We need a different approach to get to the unvaccinated

484

Dr Shane Reti: We should all be pleased with Super Saturday numbers

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Peter Dunne: The extended honeymoon between public and Government has started to wane

486

Rod Jackson: Auckland University epidemiologist says he's freaking out in a major way about Northland

487

Phil Goff: Police were put in a tough position with yesterday's protest

488

Shaun Hendy: Covid-19 modeller says Waikato's outbreak may not be as bad as Auckland's

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Dr Shane Reti: Solution to the ICU shortage, relax immigration settings

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Michael Plank: We aren't seeing the effect of level 3 yet

491

Michael Plank: Concerning we are still seeing transmission between households

492

John Battersby: Making sense of the threat to the Black Caps

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Michael Baker: 'Optimistic' we're stamping out this outbreak

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Helen Clark: Terrorism, Afghanistan and 9/11

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Michael Baker: What we know about the Covid-19 virus

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David Seymour: A more open conversation required for elimination strategy

497

Rod Jackson: 'We can knock this on the head in a couple of weeks'

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Michael Baker: How the Delta variant is affecting kids

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Matthew Tukaki: Troy Bowker's exit from the Hurricanes due to 'pressure' put on him

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National Party AGM plagued by infighting