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Duncan Garner: Tough on crime? NZ’s justice system lets victims down again
Sentencing discounts and home detention for killers and thugs show victims don’t matter.
Jane Clifton: Should we really be washing our clothes less? France says yes
The science and practicalities behind low-wash are compelling.
Aaron Smale: Memo to Wellington – our greatest economic asset and potential is Māori and Polynesian kids
Pākehā boomers and successive govts are ignoring Māori and Polynesian kids at their peril.
Could Peter Dutton be Australia’s next PM? Momentum builds
Lifting from Donald Trump's playbook is paying off for Peter Dutton.
Russell Brown: Enshittification - the reason why online services turn to crap
Your ‘news’ feed these days is there to suit Facebook’s owner, Meta, not you.
Duncan Garner: Our economy is broken, so why give millionaires taxpayer-funded pensions?
Is it time to start means-testing New Zealand Superannuation?
Guyon Espiner: PM sets himself up for a do or die scenario
NZ needs foreign investment, but get it wrong and the regret is long lasting.
Trump’s first fiasco of a fortnight: ‘We’re moving backwards as a nation’
The harsh reality is we’re now living in a tinderbox.
Duncan Garner: Here’s the real threat to Māori, so why have they missed it?
New Zealand's rapidly changing demographic is bound to impact on Māori identity,
Jane Clifton: Environmental and economic toll of cruise ships is a floating crisis
More and more ports are banning massive cruise ships.
Tureiti, Lady Moxon: ‘What this government has done is destroy years of hard work’
Govt rollback on Māori health initiatives damages & runs counter to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Duncan Garner: How many kiwis still need to quit to meet NZ's smokefree 2025 goal?
Smokefree 2025 has been a great success, but could it fail at the final hurdle?
Some doctors, care facilities and hospices obstructing patients’ right to die
Numerous complaints of deliberate obstruction to assisted dying have been received.
Elon Musk’s assault on British politics: What’s next for UK PM Keir Starmer?
With Musk turning his vitriol on UK politicians, it seems they must sit tight and smile.
Charlotte Grimshaw: The winds of change
The winds of change are blowing: they may cause headaches, nausea and depression.
Duncan Garner: Dear Prime Minister, just what is the plan to stop Kiwis leaving?
Right now, all I see are Kiwis buying one-way airline tickets; I’m calling it an F U fee.
Jane Clifton: How an evangelical Christian Protestant has divided Ireland
The figure keeping Ireland’s most famous modern-day vigil is unlikely to warm the cockles.
Albanese’s risky re-election road trip into Dutton’s Queensland stronghold
A deadly road, a political battleground: Albanese takes fight to opposition heartland.
Jane Clifton: Not everyone is in want of a Jane Austen experience
Pride, prejudice and promenades: Austen's year of celebration but are we at peak Jane?
Charlotte Grimshaw: From an Istanbul fever to dictatorship’s gaze
If the eyes are the window to the soul, what did Assad's gaze say about him?
Trump 2.0: Making American mean again
The easiest, most cowardly way to govern is through fear and intimidation.
Jane Clifton: It’s beginning to seem a lot like Scrooge had a point
Now another Christmas is over, it's safe to ask tough questions about the annual festival.
Russell Brown: Our neighbourhood is now an exemplar of urban design philosophy all but outlawed
Against all odds, the road cones have disappeared from a key road in Auckland’s Pt Chev.
Postcards from Europe: Bagless in Bucharest
Bagless in Bucharest makes for time to reflect on the city’s past and uncertain present.
Guinness craze: How social media influencers caused a Christmas shortage
Guinness shortage exposes the power of social media trends.
Charlotte Grimshaw: We need to brace for the wild year ahead
2025 promises a wild ride: the climate, the politics, the geopolitical instability.
Jane Clifton: A short goodbye to listicles
The auction of crime writer Raymond Chandler's old listicle sparks some genuine surprise.
Duncan Garner: Frontline services now the target of this cost-cutting regime
Boken promises and broken books end messy year.
How an ancient fish may hold the key to Aussie PM’s re-election
Is Anthony Albanese's govt about to sanction the world’s first modern-day fish extinction?
Duncan Garner: The Good, the really bad and the downright disastrous of 2024
So 2024, it's almost a wrap – and, from me to it, good riddance.
Jane Clifton: Brits want royals to talk more about social issues and less about personal lives
Brexit, Royals and the Jaguar rebrand expose UK contradictions.
Guyon Espiner: I’ll go into the new year with a sense of survivor’s guilt
In Australian media circles they warn, ‘don’t become like New Zealand’.
Charlotte Grimshaw: On NZ’s new gang-patch ban
Would you really rather know who’s a gang member and who isn’t?