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Military-style camps for youth can be a good thing - but the name needs to be given the boot

For many, it's the first time they have boundaries to adhere to.

Cutting their stories short: Russell Brown on the dumping of pre-sentencing cultural reports

"I can’t help but feel things would be different if everyone heard these stories".

Law & society: What’s eating the media?

The mainstream media doesn't need the Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill. Here's why.

Quelle horreur, les fausses fleurs: Paris gets sniffy about phoney blooms

A TV show is to blame for the fake flowers causing a stink in the French capital.

Inform your opinion: Increasingly partisan politics cannot be an ongoing handbrake to progress

There are creative ways to fix ailing infrastructure - but politicians must work together.

Peter Garrett: Far-right forces threaten progress for indigenous peoples in Australia and Aotearoa

Former Midnight Oil frontman turned MP on the threat extremism poses to progress.

Who would celebrate this? Gleeful reaction to Newshub demise grossly misguided

Schadenfreude over Newshub demise misplaced – these are good people doing crucial work.

Duncan Garner: Did Warner Bros. Discovery HQ make every effort to save Newshub? Letting it die is not the Kiwi way

Someone needs to wake the Government up to the news that the news is going.

Law & Society: Newsrooms must put regaining trust at the top of their agenda

Accuracy, fairness and balance are essential in journalism.

Little at large: Thanks, but no thanks, please

Authors take note - gratitude can quickly become grating.

Duncan Garner: Housing horrors may force me to live on a boat

With house prices so high, why aren't more of us looking at alternatives?

Inform your opinion: Māori got the Treaty of Waitangi, what more do they want?

Rather than “getting” something from te tiriti, Māori gave everything.

Duncan Garner: Come on baby, do the relocation loco-motion

$170k to drive trains in Australia - why wouldn't you go?

Jane Clifton: Rwandan deportation law is finally enacted - but is it viable?

"For those fleeing bleak, lawless, impoverished lives, Rwanda might qualify as a step up."

Jane Clifton: A new meaning to living in the lap of luxury, post Covid

Given all the trouble in the world, luxury should be halfway out the door by now.

Charlotte Grimshaw: Would a second Trump term be so terrible?

Trying a news blackout for one's mental health only to be dragged back into the fray.

Duncan Garner: Own Golriz - why I’m struggling to understand this

The more the mental health card is played, I fear the less we believe it.

Royally trumped: Why Australian dreams of a republic are dead

The idea of an Aussie republic is now dead in the water.