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NEW ZEALAND HERALD ARCHIVE 2004 DECEMBER 2004 Election policy options for 2005 31 December 2004 Business Herald An election to decide the middle ground? 30 December 2004 Business Herald Some new year resolutions 28 December 2004 NZ Herald column A cabinet of friends and an able deputy 21 December 2004 NZ Herald column Bring back the real Don Brash 14 December 2004 NZ Herald column A law to mesh social and economic policy? 7 December 2004 NZ Herald column NOVEMBER 2004 Reforming workplace reform 30 November 2004 NZ Herald column Another high-water mark 23 November 2004 NZ Herald column Appropriating the middle ground language 16 November 2004 NZ Herald column Time for the long view 9 November 2004 NZ Herald column Tactical space the key for NZ First 2 November 2004 NZ Herald column OCTOBER 2004 Why the world wants Kerry 26 October 2004 NZ Herald column The minister for modernity 19 October 2004 NZ Herald column A trans-Tasman parallel 12 October 2004 NZ Herald column Now for a single benefit 5 October 2004 NZ Herald column SEPTEMBER 2004 Making criminals because there is risk 28 September 2004 NZ Herald column An economic slant on DoC? 23 September 2004 Business Herald A year to go at most and Labour's spirits are rising 21 September 2004 NZ Herald column Freedom and moral absolutes 14 September 2004 NZ Herald column Where more does not mean better 9 September 2004 Business Herald The great survivor and 2005 7 September 2004 NZ Herald column AUGUST 2004 An Australian referendum that matters 31 August 2004 NZ Herald column How many and who do we want here? 26 August 2004 Business Herald It's not the kids: it's the rest of us 24 August 2004 NZ Herald column Responsibility, redemption and the future of welfare 17 August 2004 NZ Herald column Latham's plans for the labour market 12 August 2004 Business Herald John Tamihere's challenge to Labour 10 August 2004 NZ Herald column Clark's big reconciliation challenge 3 August 2004 NZ Herald column JULY 2004 How do you get productivity up? 29 July 2004 Business Herald A victim mentality creates victims 27 July 2004 NZ Herald column Leads and lags -- a political game 20 July 2004 NZ Herald column How two killers could end Labour's rule 13 July 2004 NZ Herald column Putting a profitable "fair" into trade 8 July 2004 Business Herald Now for the real National party 6 July 2004 NZ Herald column JUNE 2004 Making the Labour department work 29 June 2004 Business Herald Making a constitutional moment 29 June 2004 NZ Herald column An ex-leader gets educated 22 June 2004 NZ Herald column The Greens and the next Labour government 15 June 2004 Business Herald The all-in wrestler's line of hurdles 15 June 2004 NZ Herald column A great divide in our history 8 June 2004 NZ Herald column Partnership in the workplace 2 June 2004 Business Herald Can Parliament reconnect? 1 June 2004 NZ Herald column MAY 2004 Not a business Budget 28 May 2004 Business Herald A bold and expensive experiment 28 May 2004 NZ Herald op-ed Strutting its social democratic stuff 27 May 2004 NZ Herald op-ed Doing the tax and dependency dance 25 May 2004 NZ Herald column Developing Tasman agreement 18 May 2004 NZ Herald column When big sister helps 17 May 2004 NZ Herald Changing the language about business 12 May 2004 Business Herald What works and what doesn't 11 May 2004 Business Herald Is MMP structurally unstable? 11 May 2004 NZ Herald column The hikoi to nowhere 7 May 2004 NZ Herald op-ed Life's hard on the edge: Turia could learn from Prebble 4 May 2004 NZ Herald column A mistaken US impression that left an indelible mark 3 May 2004 NZ Herald news APRIL 2004 Conviction politics and Don Brash 27 April 2004 NZ Herald column Just where do we fit with the new emerging China? 20 April 2004 NZ Herald column How splashing in the sea might take us to the future 13 April 2004 NZ Herald column Social entrepreneurs: a politically hazardous breed 6 April 2004 NZ Herald column MARCH 2004 An Australian lesson or two for needy Labour leaders 30 March 2004 NZ Herald column Ironies flow from the Bush-Blair Iraq invasion 30 March 2004 NZ Herald column Might National bed in conservative rule? 16 March 2004 NZ Herald column The Treaty and the constitution: a circular path 13 March 2004 Weekend Herald What's in a group: the heart of the Maori question 9 March 2004 NZ Herald column Values: the power in Brash's politics 2 March 2004 NZ Herald column FEBRUARY 2004 Decisions loom on tertiary education 24 February 2004 NZ Herald column What happens to grasshoppers in autumn? 17 February 2004 NZ Herald column An uncivil fight looms on civil unions 10 February 2004 NZ Herald column A nation? Only when all fully belong 3 February 2004 NZ Herald column JANUARY 2004 What is to be done about the differences over the Tasman? 27 January 2004 NZ Herald column Poser for Clark: how to refresh the cabinet 20 January 2004 NZ Herald column A tiny, bright ingredient in a smart nation 13 January 2004 NZ Herald column Looking on the bright side: off to track the missing "m" 6 January 2004 NZ Herald column A year that could be pivotal 3 January 2004 Weekend Herald CONTACT P O Box 9494, Wellington, New Zealand Email: ColinJames@synapsis.co.nz HOMEPAGE