Mike Hosking: The facts don't back up the debate the country is being bought up by Asian investment.

Shocking preliminary results from a survey show 56% of medical students had reported being the victim of bullying or sexual harassment in the past year.

A group of Australian women - including Tony Abbott's sister - have made a real song and dance about the tax on tampons.

A gay couple were subjected to a torrent of abuse in a London branch of Tesco after they shared a brief kiss in the store.

Newstalk ZB host Rachel Smalley criticism of a "near-monopoly of white male broadcasters " has kicked off a vigorous debate online.

I'm not one of those with bitter memories, though aware that some Maori suffered more than others, as racism did exist then and still does, writes Alan Duff.

As a young nation undergoing a rapidly changing demography, NZ is learning to grapple with the rise of 'casual' or 'everyday' racism.

AFL Players Association chief Paul Marsh says no one can blame Sydney Swans star Adam Goodes if he decides to retire, as the booing controversy reaches fever pitch.

I remember my first and only club rugby final. I was playing for Takapuna in the North Harbour under-19 title match against Silverdale, a team we had beaten earlier in the season in a muddy and....

Australian rules football players and officials have appealed for crowds to stop the relentless, racially-motivated booing and taunting of Adam Goodes, an Aboriginal footballer.

A bouncer who was told she was "worthless" and threatened with gang action from two WINZ workers says dealing with verbally abusive customers has become commonplace.

But bar owner says the two Ministry of Social Development workers who abused his staff won't be welcome back.

Amanda Seyfried has put the spotlight on gender discrimination in Hollywood after revealing she was paid just 10 per cent of a male co-star's salary.

The debate about non-resident Chinese buying Auckland houses could hurt bilateral relations and Labour has already done "immeasurable" damage to the links between the two countries, says a top boss.

A group of Chinese individuals and businesses are planning on taking out a full-page advertisement in the Herald to speak out against housing claims.

Comedian weighs in on the property debate: "Being Chinese in New Zealand always puts you on the back foot."

The Ku Klux Klan is flourishing and exploiting racial tension in the US, according to a behind-the-scenes documentary.

Chinese newspaper accuses Labour of racism over property market data.

South Island's Agassiz Glacier has been "un-named" as part of a global campaign to remove the use of the name of Agassiz, a Swiss geologist who believed not all races were created equal.

US President Barack Obama has led an impassioned funeral service for a popular black minister and politician killed in a church massacre in South Carolina.

A white police officer in Texas has been suspended after video emerged of him drawing a gun at a pool party and throwing a black girl in a bikini to the ground.

Numbers of older students are dropping and Government cuts are to blame, says the national student union and lobby group Grey Power.

Caitlyn Jenner's courage has been welcomed by the world - but do gay women on our own sports fields feel just as accepted?

It was "a moment bigger than politics", declared the Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, introducing his same-sex marriage bill to the federal Parliament yesterday.

A Muslim woman has accused a US airline of discrimination after an attendent refused to give her an an unopened can of Diet Coke because it could be used "as a weapon".

The streak is as impressive as it is difficult to explain.

Italy is now the only western European country that does not recognise either same-sex marriage or civil unions.

The British university equality officer at the centre of a racism and sexism row could lose her job after she allegedly tweeted a hashtag 'kill all white men'.