Rachel Stewart: Rail on track but climate challenges ignored
Comment: When will Government change their emphasis on solving the biggest crisis of all.
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COMMENT: Govt cronies hate dissent and are eyeing speech laws.
Pilot scheme for regional reporters is good news
Reporter numbers in regions have fallen by 28 per cent in the last three to five years.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Down to brass tax - rich have no reason to fear fair
A Capital Gains Tax equals a fairer system of taxation, Raukawa-Tait argues.
Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too
COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.
Rachel Stewart: Dignified death of a feisty farm cat
COMMENT: This isn't really a column about my dead cat, though it might appear that way.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: How times have changed for young people
Who would want to be a young person embarking on adult life these days?
Rachel Stewart: Outlook grim despite the allure of denial
COMMENT: Species extinction and extreme weather are only going to get worse.
Remembering the Christchurch terror: Borne on wings of hope
Simon Wilson reflects on what Christchurch tragedy means for NZ and where we go from here.
Older gang wants to turn the corner
Comment: A quiet revolution is underway in the Mongrel Mob.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Kindness is not a sign of weakness
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: No one should have been surprised by our Prime Minister last week.
Rachel Stewart: Owning firearms a privilege not a right
COMMENT: Whatever Govt decides, I am fully prepared to relinquish my semi-automatics.
Soper: Someone likely to end up as toast after Nats SFO probe
COMMENT: Simon Bridges was subdued and he looked shocked as he talked to journalists.
Doco on Michael Jackson 'changes everything'
COMMENT: As a life-long Jackson fan, it took the horrors of this doco to wake me up.
Rachel Stewart: Can we separate the art from the artist?
COMMENT: I don't believe you can rewrite history. It's already made.
Claire Trevett: Air NZ fare cuts won't shut Shane Jones up
Comment: It might help temper Shane Jones' ego if Air NZ stopped granting his every wish.
Critics' hate speech ensures Jordan Peterson stays popular
COMMENT: Peterson is bringing the degradation of public discourse into sharp relief.
'Our love was turned into a circus': Woman's tirade against Marvelly, partner
COMMENT: This years pride feels like a bandaid trying to staunch the bleeding..
Rachel Stewart: Fry me a river, climate denialists
COMMENT: There's no ignoring what's happening with the weather all over the world.
Bridges the Merkel, Collins the Trump?
COMMENT: On the eve of Waitangi, will Simon Bridges be the leader we need?
Claire Trevett: National's problem? Getting rid of Winston
National ruling out NZ First would be akin to dumping a lover before they could dump you.
Rachel Stewart: I'm back and I'm not staying quiet
COMMENT: I am rebranding as the only columnist any rational person will ever want.
Rachel Stewart: Environment, Facebook, free speech among big issues of 2018
COMMENT: Rachel Stewart looks back on 2018.
Rachel Stewart: TERF wars - a derogatory term to shut down debate
COMMENT: All human beings deserve human rights and respect.
Should Rotorua follow Tauranga's begging ban?
Rotorua residents share their opinion on a begging ban in the city.
Hosking: Wake up Shane Jones - don't waste the regional fund
COMMENT: Shane Jones has to take himself a lot more seriously if he expects others to.
Comment: Inquiry into state care will range wide
The royal commission into state care will be wide-ranging and important.
Rachel Stewart: Why today's feminists leave me underwhelmed - and males contented
COMMENT: Today's 'feminists' generally leave me underwhelmed.
Rachel Stewart: 'Trump of tropics' latest psycho in club
COMMENT: Rise of Brazil's Bolsonaro next step in far-right's troubling march.
Soper: Do we get value from royal tour?
COMMENT: Looking at happy faces, spending taxpayers' money was last thing on their minds.
What we can learn from the Jami-Lee Ross saga
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: What can we learn from the Jami-Lee Ross saga.
Peter Williams: My sinking feeling for waterfront stadium
COMMENT: New stadium plan must be paid for privately or it's going underwater too.
Lizzie Marvelly: Tramadol trend is a prescription for trouble
COMMENT: Tramadol is not a drug that you want to muck around with.
Hosking: Jami-Lee Ross a 'duplicitous, dishonest, conniving, scumbag'
COMMENT: Jami-Lee Ross' credibility is shot. He is exposed. He is a busted flush.