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National is leaving behind last week’s rough and tumble of beltway politics – and the aftermath of the Jami-Lee Ross scandal – to take the pulse of rural New Zealand.

National's position has not changed on a water tax or levy, says Opposition Leader Simon Bridges. 

National Party leader Simon Bridges says the biggest challenges farmers face are the environment and their right to farm.

Technology, not taxes, is the way to deal with water related issues.

Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern says after National came into power it shelved the Environment Court judge David Sheppard’s national policy statement (NPS) initiated by the last Labour government.

The National Government already has a sharp eye on next year’s poll.

Parliament can be as nasty – or not – as you want to make it, says first-time MP and dairy farmer Barbara Kuriger.

Feedback on the TPP from agribusinesses has been mostly positive, but the same cannot be said for most political parties. Here's an offering of what some of our political parties have to say;

Nathan Guy, Damien O’Connor, Winston Peters, John Key and Steven Joyce have one thing in common: they’ve been to Northland in the last three weeks in what must be the region’s fastest-ever roundup of Government ministers and leading opposition members.

An extra $410 million is to be squeezed from bach and boat owners, and farmers, among others, over the next four years under Budget measures tightening tax rules.