COMMENT: Women taking care of women challenges the status quo, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: The Te Awa Tupua Bill is a unique approach which we need more of.

COMMENT: One of the women involved in the death of Nia Glassie about to have her fifth child. Taxpayers will raise all of them.

COMMENT: Rape culture doesn't exclusively hurt our young women, it harms our young men as well, says Lizzie Marvelly.

OPINION: They'd never had a woman on the footplate so I needed to be under 'supervision', says Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: There is only one word that can truly take responsibility for gender pay disparity, and it is sexism.

OPINION: Human capacity for animal cruelty never-ending, writes Rachel Stewart.

Years ago, a Maori boy was caught stealing lollies at the local Four Square. A report labelled him a "thug". He was 10 years old, writes Dame Susan Devoy.

COMMENT: I greatly resent Family First attempting to use experiences of sexual violence in order to advance its anti-trans agenda.

COMMENT: There's something about animal farming and meat-eating that defies rational gravity.

COMMENT: If we had more people in Parliament who would live long enough to experience the results of their actions, we'd all be better off.

COMMENT: Personal battles are waste of energy when tackling climate change requires us all.

COMMENT: The teddies and cupids Valentine's Day brings are vile but dedicating a day to romance is still a lovely idea, writes Lizzie Marvelly.

COMMENT: If risible views heard on plane above Godzone are pakeha norm then help us all.

Paul Tapsell A_140308jb09bop.JPGTE ARAWA TRIP: Hariata Kereopa and Ellen Tamati in front of one of the buses at Ko Te Hamatuti Marae

COMMENT: February 6 marks the one day out of 365 on which we are encouraged to contemplate our unique and imperfect history.

COMMENT: The US has the best raptors for falconry - eagles, falcons, hawks. I go often. The thought of not going breaks my heart. Yet, here we are.

COMMENT: Trump's signing of death warrant for vulnerable women around world shows exactly what fight is about, writes Lizzie Marvelly.

COMMENT: To block someone is not censorship. It's just that I don't want to hear you, or more to the point, for you to hear me, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: Let me tell you a story of broken promises, generations of injustice, second-class treatment and now, of political expediency, writes Lizzie Marvelly.

COMMENT: Reliable as clockwork, and right on cue, DairyNZ stepped up to the microphone and shot themselves in the head.

COMMENT: Not everyone is long and lithe - it's time adverts celebrated a range of body shapes and sizes and recognised beauty is diverse.

COMMENT: New tectonic plates for Kaikoura would be a great way to start 2017 but if not world peace will do nicely.

COMMENT: Blame internet giants for allowing fake news to spread globally.

COMMENT: In some parts of the world, girls are forced to miss school when they have their periods. Places like Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia and. . . New Zealand.

COMMENT: We urgently need to educate our society about media literacy and critical thinking.

COMMENT: Reducing a woman you've never met to her physicality is not a compliment; it's weird and inappropriate.

COMMENT: We need to save the Kiwi dream before it's too late.

COMMENT: Sadly, the game I once loved has mutated into a smorgasbord of unsavoury fare.

COMMENT: As a child of the Central North Island I can't think of a better place to be than the Bay of Plenty.