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Zizi Sparks: CrossFit competition renews drive to improve

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Samantha Motion: It's time for a real debate on arming police

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Dawn Picken: Once upon a time, I could venture with my kids

Opinion: The anti-staycation: where you wish you had left home but stayed to work instead.

1981 Springbok Tour: Former cop recalls being on duty for Hamilton match

"The few police on the embankment were brushed aside like feathers."

Jo Raphael: Let's keep world at arm's length until we're all jabbed

Opinion: Britain shouldn't throw in the towel and neither should New Zealand.

Letters to the editor: Rejuvenation of CBD won't happen until parking sorted

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Luke Kirkness: Potholes are there to be fixed, let's do it

Opinion: No one likes a pothole, so why aren't we doing more about fixing them?

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Three Waters loomed large at LGNZ forum

OPINION: Overriding concern was accountability to local ratepayers would be removed

Kiri Gillespie: Natural disasters are telling us something

Increasing natural disaster events should be considered a prompt for getting prepared.

Luke Kirkness: On losing favour with school holidays

Opinion: What the school holidays can teach you about the teaching profession.

Jo Raphael: Family violence victims must be protected

OPINION: There is a heartbreaking highlight of the housing crisis.

Luke Kirkness: Have we made it too easy for people not to work?

Opinion: As the impact of Covid-19 rages on, are we being too soft with the benefit?

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Adults need to speak out against child abuse, before it's too late

OPINION: Parenting is not easy but little children must always come first.

Kelly Makiha: Why I can't stop thinking about Ferro-James' death

I'm sad at what happened to Ferro-James and ashamed this happened in our city.

Kiri Gillespie: Lakes community right to fight now for greater amenities

Opinion: Houses on their own don't make a community.

Rob Rattenbury: How pervasive is white supremacy in NZ?

OPINION: White supremacists do exist in our country, though hopefully not in great numbers

Luke Kirkness: Don't make my fashion mistakes

Opinion: I don't have the greatest fashion sense but here's why you should listen to me.

Letters: More housing land needed

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