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Editorial: Why farmers are up in arms
Sparks could fly at today's nationwide 'Howl of a Protest'.
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?
Lois Turei: 'I needed to step up and bring my wahine Māori to the fore'
NZME was ready to adopt a bicultural strategy and I needed to pay some dues.
Shane Te Pou on Kawerau's Tasman Mill: 'The smell of home'
OPINION: 'Uncle Tasman' could add value to raw logs and develop green industries.
Analysis: One name sticks out in mammoth drug bust
Aussie gangster on the run in the Mediterranean among the names listed in court docs.
Zoe Hunter: Heckling of te reo speaker one of most disgusting displays I've seen
Opinion: If we, as a city, give any space to racism, it reflects on all of us.
Audrey Young: If not now, then when for beneficiaries?
OPINION: After spending $57b on the Covid fund, the time was right to lift benefits.
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Govt must deal with appalling behaviour of emergency housing residents
Comment: The complaints are the same: harassment, alcohol and drug abuse, violence.
Mark Lister: Things can get very ugly if you have overstretched in property market
Economic prospects will ultimately depend on the global containment of Covid.
Dawn Picken: Good fences, good neighbours? I don't think so
Opinion: Fences can be useful, but are we building too many?
Luke Kirkness: What I learnt from covering Axle's disappearance
OPINION: The people of Tolaga Bay and East Cape have shown us how we all ought to live.
Teuila Fuatai: Motels no cure for a housing emergency
OPINION: Emergency housing system is broken and Govt needs to step up and fix it.
Art Nahill: The disease that may prove fatal to our healthcare system
Opinion: Perhaps, just perhaps, stop tinkering around the edges of healthcare.
Dylan Thorne: Everyone losing in emergency housing crisis
Opinion: We desperately need more social housing to accommodate families in need.
Samantha Motion: Bay Patrol is the sun-soaked summer of dreams and nightmares
Opinion: Summer rewind on Bay Patrol - but it's not all fun and games for the lifeguards
Bryce Heard: Chronic housing shortage the cause of our housing crisis
Opinion: A shortage of houses is driving the housing crisis
Luke Kirkness: The tap is running dry with our water resource
Opinion: It falls from the sky but it doesn't seem to be an endless resource.
Zizi Sparks: Are Kiwis afraid of hard work?
OPINION: If blue-collar job availability is anything to go by, we may be.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Māori in fight of our lives against cancer
OPINION: Crisis often reveals how strong we can be when we have to be.
Opinion: Avoiding the 'crater' effect of rent controls
Opinion: We should be actively working to increase the supply of housing.
Claire Trevett: Will Luxon be a first-term leader or will Bridges rise again?
OPINION: There are talks in National about reinstating Bridges with Luxon as his deputy.
Teuila Fuatai: The irony in the Police Ten 7 racism debate
OPINION: The twist in the drama came via an apology - from a surprising quarter.
Jo Raphael: I didn't master any skills over lockdown
OPINION: Everyone experienced lockdown differently but we were in it together.
Jo Raphael: This is tiresome, misogynistic and so last century. I'm over it.
OPINION: The critics need to get with the programme - or change the channel.
Samantha Motion: Not in my backyard: Scourge of suburban moaners
Opinion: There's a difference between dobbing in a party and a popular community event.
Samantha Motion: How lockdown changed my life
Opinion: The lockdown experience flicked a switch and there was no going back.
Is Police Ten 7 reality or propaganda? These documents make it clear
OPINION: The paper trail shows exactly who calls the shots, former police officer says.
Luke Kirkness: Why Peter Burling's on the Mt Rushmore of NZ sport
Opinion: Peter Burling has cemented his place in New Zealand sporting folklore.
Rob Rattenbury: Transtasman 'mateship' a mistaken belief
Australians could not give a toss about upsetting the New Zealand Government.
Review: 'Crispness of attack' from Bay of Plenty Symphonia
Hanno Fairburn reviews the Bay of Plenty Symphonia concert
Sam Shaw: Happiness is about finding out what you really like doing
World champion mountain bike racer and ecologist Sam Shaw.
Rawiri Waititi: It's not about a tie – it's about Pākehā power
OPINION: I have every right to represent my people and reflect their dress, culture.
Dawn Picken: Inequity hurts everyone - it's time to fix the whare
Opinion: We are still living in the house colonialism built and it's time to fix it.