Leading lobby groups, businesses and organisations have lined up to give the government top marks for its updated trade strategy today.

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Bill Ralston’s TVNZ criticisms ‘about as relevant as talking about black and white TVs,’ says Kevin Kenrick

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The critical state is illustrated by Yellowstone National Park, where lightning would cause several hundred forest fires a year. Most would burn a few acres or less, while a small number would destroy a few hundred or more acres of forest.

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Thank you for your recent email. It provided a nice break for me after poring over a slew of recent media industry news — the impressive new Newsroom venture, speculation about the proposed Fairfax-NZME merger, the launch of the country’s first Chinese television channel, and so forth.

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The approach by successive governments to Maori economic development is a triumph of hope over understanding and experience. More darkly, it’s the triumph of politics over what is good and just.

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I have written about the Mitsubishi Outlander many times for a variety of publications over the years. I’ve run no less than two of them (the first and second generation models) as long-term testers and I was impressed with both.

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Tax accountants are the plumbers of the corporate world – highly skilled and capable of complex engineering but required to deal with sh** most of us just don’t want to think about.

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Oh, I’ve had enough of this. Framing New Zealand’s issues in generational terms is in vogue. It’s nonsense, mostly. It’s possible – at times helpful, in fact – to have a certain tolerance for nonsense when surveying the political scene. This particular type of nonsense, however, is harmful.

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Jacinda Ardern’s eclipse of her leader Andrew Little in the preferred prime minister stakes has occurred sooner than expected.

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US Congressional probes into alleged Russian influence in the 2016 presidential campaign are gearing up. The House of Representatives committee on intelligence held its first public hearing on the matter on March 20, with the second scheduled for March 28.

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