The news that hundreds have been exposed to measles because some selfish git chose to ignore an order to stay home really riled me.

A lot of truckies phone talkback. They spend a lot of time on the roads and have only the radio for company, so they're a captive audience.

Fit, healthy Kiwis aren't working on farms because they don't want to. They want to go out on a Friday night and stay out until four.

A plan to spend millions bringing pandas to Wellington Zoo is being pooh-poohed by Kerre McIvor. She says they should stay in China.

This time four years ago - well, four years and one week ago to be precise - New Zealand was celebrating the first weekend of what proved to be a month-long party.

State and council civil servants need to remember their budgets come from the pockets of everyday New Zealanders, writes Kerre McIvor.

We seem to have lost our capacity to be kind, whether it's raising the refugee quota, feeding hungry kids in schools or sharing the road, says Kerre McIvor.

Worm farms, lavender farms and cat breeding have all been deemed high risk. Beef, dairy and sheep farming, however, are not considered dangerous occupations, Kerre McIvor writes.

I hope the old boys' association keeps Simon Leese well stocked in good, single-malt whisky because he'd have needed a jolly stiff one after seeing his students, Kerre McIvor writes.

Surely it's the right of every celeb parent to choose to keep their babies out of the public domain, writes Kerre McIvor.

Offering people choices is the answer, not bludgeoning them with the blunt stick of taxes, writes Kerre McIvor.

Kerre McIvor asks if it’s appropriate to insert long-lasting contraception in the bodies of girls too young to be having sex.

Swney's defence is the most pathetic excuse I've heard. He has only himself to blame for spending the next however many years in prison, writes Kerre McIvor.

Police are slagged all the time for being revenue gatherers when they write tickets; now they're being criticised for trying to stop the offence before it happens, writes Kerre McIvor.

Lewis Road Creamery are back in the news with a breast milk fundraising initiative, writes Kerre McIvor.

I'm full of admiration for Lecretia Seales, who spent her last months fighting for the right for doctors to help her die without fear of prosecution, Kerry McIvor writes.

Kerre McIvor writes: The headline in this week's Herald article on prostate cancer survival rates said it all: NZ men dying too soon.

Hopefully, Chan and Sukumaran's deaths will be a deterrent to other baby gangstas looking to make a quick buck. Then Chan and Sukumaran won't have died in vain, writes Kerre McIvor.

It'd be a barren media landscape without John Campbell and Campbell Live and if Mediaworks doesn't appreciate the team, I hope another broadcaster does, writes Kerre McIvor.

Despite the fact that using mobile phones in cars has been illegal since 2009, the numbers flouting the law are on the rise, writes Kerre McIvor.

Dog breeders should be subject to comprehensive regulations, writes Kerre McIvor.

As a parent, you want your child to know you've got their back, especially when they become teenagers.

The furore over a pregnant woman being denied a glass of Champagne shows nothing has changed when it comes to pregnant women being regarded as public property, writes Kerre McIvor.

Kerre McIvor writes: This week, an Aussie medical council made public a report concluding homeopathy is not effective for treating any medical condition. In effect, it's bunkum.

The Bali Nine drug-smuggling ringleaders have had something of a small reprieve, but even so, their life expectancy is likely to be measured in days rather than years.

The X Factor producers must be held accountable for allowing Shae Brider's whitewashed version of events to go to air, writes Kerre McIvor.

Some sections of society seem to have done an Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole this week. One minute, they were in Aotearoa 2015; the next, they were back in 1980s New Zild.

When the British Foreign Secretary told us we were "family" this week, he meant we're the bogan cousins everyone's loathe to invite to weddings, writes Kerre McIvor.