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Editorial: Easy answer is to abolish school zones
School zoning was a subject once close to the heart of public education. Now it serves a vested interest of a different sort.
School zoning was a subject once close to the heart of public education. Now it serves a vested interest of a different sort.
The test table is being set for the real deal before the next Rugby World Cup - the British and Irish Lions tour next year.
The City will no doubt survive as a financial capital but United Kingdom is unlikely to.
The Government's decision to extend the service of New Zealand soldiers in Iraq beyond next February's deadline is the right one.
The EU has overreached its remit in many respects, yet the world is better when Europe is together. Britain should stay.
National has been remarkably conciliatory so far for a party so long in power. An extension of paid parental leave deserves its consideration.
Teina Pora's legal team are right to hold out on the Government's compensation offer until the issue of inflation adjustment is resolved.
The deathknell sounded for yet another custom this week, with the TAB hanging up the service which let punters place bets over the phone by talking to an operator.
Bullies once confined their behaviour to the schoolyard. The digital world has changed all that, as our revealing series about cyberbullying illustrates this week.
Back in the day Wales could run on to a rugby paddock and field a team stacked with A-list names.
In a country where it is perfectly safe to drink water from a tap, it is incredible that anybody can make money by selling water in bottles.
Why should this Pacific nation, half the world away from the sovereign's palace, retain a foreign head of state?
Pity the British. Here in NZ we have referendums on subjects such as the flag; they have them on the make-up of their nation and its place in the world.
If the railway works as its planners intend, it will make Auckland a more compact city, boosting its CBD and attracting more dense development.
The return of Manu Vatuvei to the playing field today is doubly welcome. The stuttering Warriors sorely need the hulking winger's presence.
A week ago, when the Budget had delivered no answers to the hyperinflation of house prices, the PM told us to wait for a National Policy Statement.
Why are some people still smoking despite everything that has been done to discourage them? Why should the next four annual increases make any difference?
The Government has settled on a simplistic solution to the Auckland housing shortage.
This country would benefit from many more people, and better preparation for their arrival.
This is not a Government that often springs surprises, for which we should be grateful most of the time.
A party of off-road driving enthusiasts set out in 13 vehicles on Sunday to tackle a notorious high-country dirt track before it was closed for the winter.
The Labour Party surprised many people last week by advocating the complete abolition of boundaries on urban expansion.
Parker has New Zealand and Samoa behind him tonight as he bids for a chance to go for the summit. Here's to him.
These days Auckland is more like a graveyard for potential All Blacks. They seem to do better in any other franchise.
A survey of 1777 secondary school teachers has found nearly half believe the national assessment system, NCEA, is adversely affecting their teaching.
It is often said in favour of prisoner rehabilitation programmes that every offender has to be released eventually. That's not quite true.
We should be reducing debt faster while the good times last, not talking about tax cuts.
The theory of tradeable quotas always sounded too good to be true.
Whatever the source of the demand for Auckland houses, it will remain insatiable if the Government pretends it is purely a problem of supply.
The Bachelor NZ, the television show which unravelled off-screen these past few days, ended its season a ratings hit.