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Rachel Stewart: Time for dry July
COMMENT: The more I drank the more I could handle it. Time to give it a break.
COMMENT: The more I drank the more I could handle it. Time to give it a break.
COMMENT: Jacinda Ardern has six short weeks before she's back into her job.
COMMENT: Our approach to suicide isn't working very well.
COMMENT: Studies show cows have personalities and emotions, just like cats and dogs.
COMMENT: There's no doubt Māori are disadvantaged - how to deal with it is the question.
COMMENT: How in 2018 can you single out a race and offer them something no one else gets.
COMMENT: Robertson resisted calls to blow the windfall in this Budget.
COMMENT: Farmers should have acted sooner but MPI should have too.
No, no one was hurt, but hours of clean up, stress and frustration lies ahead.
It is exciting times ahead with the change in Government.
COMMENT: Death notification app is not for all tastes but it keeps things in perspective.
COMMENT: Online technology is hugely important but too much can be detrimental.
COMMENT: The real political battles this year won't involve the Opposition.
COMMENT: In his first attempt to embarrass Labour, Bridges ended up with egg on his face.
Comment: He may be Oxford educated but it was pure Te Atatu.
OPINION: The decision today will affect the next Government.
Comment: Conditions of secrecy helped Joyce's campaign to get off the starting block.
Comment: As a piece of politics, this is clever. As a piece of business, the jury's out.
Comment: Simon Bridges clearly wanted no distractions as he launched his leadership bid.
Smoke signals to be read from barbecues at Waitangi and Tauranga.
COMMENT: So, we all know in our hearts that rodeo is wrong.
COMMENT: Bryce Edwards looks at Chloe Swarbrick's failed bill.
COMMENT: Why do we have to put up with these stupid antics?
COMMENT: Hard to feel jazzed about 2018 knowing Earth and its denizens are on brink.
COMMENT: People need to know the horror of what's happening to some of our children.
COMMENT: We shouldn't be publishing opinions which are based on racist or sexist attacks.
COMMENT: Fonterra's waterways plan requires a bucket, writes Rachel Stewart.
Comment: National's vote demands bordered on political blackmail.
COMMENT: Artificial milk and meat pose huge risk to farming industry.
COMMENT: Diving into National's list to see who could eventually lead the party.