Rob Rattenbury: Who runs the world? Volunteers
The value of volunteer labour alone equates to $3.5 billion annually and climbing.
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Jane Trask: Undies, undies, undies, TOGS!
'What really is wrong with a little female butt cheek?'
Zoe Hunter: Tsunami system needs fixing before real emergency strikes
People might not react next time around, writes Zoe Hunter.
Sheree Trotter: Visiting Auschwitz profound and disturbing
Comment: Visiting Auschwitz all the more disturbing for the resurgence of antisemitism.
Samantha Motion: Hotels and a tale of two towns
Comment: Does Tauranga need to catch up to Rotorua?
Kiri Gillespie: Don't tell me not to eat meat
All of this environmental white noise and societal finger-wagging is tiresome.
Dawn Picken: Long road towards equality in sports
COMMENT: We still have a ways to go to eliminate racism and sexism in sports.
Buddy Mikaere: What's in a name?
COMMENT: On te reo, selling tomato sauce and wordplay taken too far.
Carmen Hall: People who dump rubbish at charity shops are losers
Comment: People continue to dump rubbish at charity shops in the Bay of Plenty.
Rose Davis: The challenge of changing with the weather
'What shifts so I no longer shut down and refuse to hear my guilty thoughts?'
Carmen Hall: G-strings are for the bedroom, not beach
COMMENT: As the mum, I worry about the impression this trend is making on young girls.
Carmen Hall: Government needs to address housing affordability
COMMENT: We were lucky to buy our home but others haven't been.
Bryan Gould: Explanation for bush fires not hard to find
Insatiable demand for consumption is upsetting the natural balance on which life depends.
Carmen Hall: Australian bush fires not likely to end anytime soon
COMMENT: It is hard to comprehend the loss of lives and wildlife.
Samantha Motion: Reparation delays add insult to injury
Comment: Ensuring reparation system doesn't re-victimise people is the least we can do.
Rob Rattenbury: The ongoing war against possums
This is a neverending war with periods of peace after bouts of extermination.
Zoe Hunter: Bring back the New Year's Eve party at the Mount
COMMENT: The past few years have been dead on December 31, it's time for change.
Dawn Picken: Lessons from a cyclone
COMMENT: For most of us, 2020 will be neither smashing success nor abject failure.
Carmen Hall: Cigarette addiction has cost me tens of thousands of dollars
COMMENT: But giving up smoking is not as easy.
Katee Shanks: I'll never look at Whakaari the same way again
It's during the downtime when thoughts of December 9 come to the fore.
Zizi Sparks: We'll never be the same again after White Island
One month on the effects of the eruption are still seen in the small community.
Buddy Mikaere: Let's hail the delicacy that is the New Zealand mussel
COMMENT: They deserve an international reputation.
Zizi Sparks: Help Surf Life Saving NZ so it can help you
COMMENT: Help lifeguards stay afloat. You never know when they might do the same for you.
Letters: Tauranga's housing shortage and rates comparison
Opinion: Readers have their say.
Kiri Gillespie: Harsher penalties needed for fleeing drivers
COMMENT: Offenders are putting lives at risk.
Bryan Gould: What we can do to make the world a better place
COMMENT: We can each set our own standards.
Review: One last boogie in the bay before holidays end
Fat Freddy's Drop sent Tauranga dancing through the night.
Kiri Gillespie: We're getting fat and lazy and we're to blame
And now we're paying the price at our funerals.
Buddy Mikaere: The Treaty is all about a fair go
Waitangi Day and the Treaty… are we there yet?
2020: The year the Bay gets a real transport plan
Other projects may need to take a back seat.