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Breakfast in schools: it just doesn't work

Often it doesn't increase the odds that kids eat breakfast at all (TV3)

GUEST COMMENT: Studies show no great benefit from public funding, such as the programme our government is poised to unveil in a fortnight.

Confessions of a former leftie

Rodney Hide

HIDESIGHT I believed people couldn’t be left alone to do as they please: they were too greedy, the market too capricious, resources too precious and the planet too fragile.

A budding Asia Pacific region sprints ahead

The Asia Pacific region

COMMENT The state of the Asia Pacific region is a mix of worrisome stories and heartening tales.

NZ POLITICS DAILY: No 'Budget for the boardroom'

English: electorally smart Budget tips hat to leftwing policies

Labour will be angry with Bill English. His Budget tips its hat to leftwing causes, disarming many of David Shearer's campaign themes.

BUDGET 2013: Key can now return to his personal priority – helping the underclass

Key during a 2007 visit to McGehan Close in Auckland's Mt Albert