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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)
Eric Crampton | WEEKEND REVIEW | 63 comments

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

Aaron Gilmore debacle put Budget at risk

Matthew Hooton
Matthew Hooton | WEEKEND REVIEW | 2 comments

UPDATED with table.

Confessions of a former leftie

Rodney Hide
Rodney Hide | WEEKEND REVIEW | 38 comments

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
Nathan Smith | WEEKEND REVIEW | 1 comment

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
Bryce Edwards | Friday May 17, 2013 | 5 comments

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

"What a joke. Bring on the next election."

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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
Matthew Hooton | Thursday May 16, 2013 | 13 comments

"Pity the rest of his government doesn't share his apparent concern. For 'sense of drift' you must surely substitute 'asleep at the wheel'."

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