'Cannibals' remark fuels racism-in-sport row across the Tasman.

A group of hen-party guests is accusing a student bar of ageism, saying half their party was turned away for being "too old".

Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club is keeping a ban on turbans.

Brett Edge was thrown off an Auckland bus a day after the company apologised for 15 previous similar incidents.

Opponents of the Search and Surveillance bill say it overturns important aspects of civil liberties.

The Human Rights Commission has been asked to clarify whether a Sikh student should be allowed to wear a ceremonial dagger to school.

Homophobia is on rise in Uganda as the government seeks an Anti-Homosexuality Bill and the minister for ethics and integrity insists that it will be every citizen's duty under new laws to denounce anyone they suspect of being gay.

A cosmopolitan club that refused entry to a turbaned Sikh concedes the club's name stands for inclusion of all races, but says it has a strict no hat rule.

National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi is threatening to take a south Auckland club to the Human Rights Commission over its headwear ban.

Society has frequently failed fathers by either forcing them to give up work and become house husbands or demanding that they spend long hours in the office bringing home the bacon.