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![Editorial: Huge cyclone costs not easy to count](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Editorial: Huge cyclone costs not easy to count
OPINION: Early estimates of economic costs are usually wrong
![Comment: Window of hope for Turkey and Syria is closing](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Comment: Window of hope for Turkey and Syria is closing
OPINION: Save the Children NZ CEO pleads for support in quake-struck region.
![Matthew Hooton: Why an early election is Labour’s winning bet](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Matthew Hooton: Why an early election is Labour’s winning bet
National isn't ready, and an early vote would let Labour deliver tax changes this year.
![Boris Sokratov: This is absolute 'Green Standing by James Shaw and his Green Mob'](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Boris Sokratov: This is absolute 'Green Standing by James Shaw and his Green Mob'
OPINION: Greens Party is grasping at straws blaming Gabrielle on climate change.
![Cyclone Gabrielle: Chris Keall - Three stalled - but doable - initiatives for better phone and broadband service for the regions](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Cyclone Gabrielle: Chris Keall - Three stalled - but doable - initiatives for better phone and broadband service for the regions
Three great initiatives, all stuck in the slow lane.
![MAFS groom atrociously insults wife’s looks](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
MAFS groom atrociously insults wife’s looks
One MAFS husband unleashes a stream of offensive comments about his wife’s looks.
![Mike Hosking: Hipkins’ truancy announcement has come too late](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Mike Hosking: Hipkins’ truancy announcement has come too late
OPINION: Why was nothing done when he was Minister for Education?
!['Increasingly worried': It's time to recalculate our vulnerability to floods - insurance boss](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
'Increasingly worried': It's time to recalculate our vulnerability to floods - insurance boss
OPINION: I'm increasingly worried at how unprepared we are.
![Letters: Political polls, intensive housing, Cyclone Gabrielle, taxation, and charter schools](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Letters: Political polls, intensive housing, Cyclone Gabrielle, taxation, and charter schools
OPINION: Letters on climate, newspaper delivery, coastal houses, and forestry slash.
![Sideswipe: Isn’t ciabatta like 80 per cent air?](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Sideswipe: Isn’t ciabatta like 80 per cent air?
A daily column looking at humorous, satirical and simply strange news.
![Letters: Gratitude, government help, Wayne Brown, David Seymour and West Papua](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Letters: Gratitude, government help, Wayne Brown, David Seymour and West Papua
OPINION: Letters on housing, floods, balloons, newspapers, and Labour.
![It is possible to hate your job but love your work](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
It is possible to hate your job but love your work
Financial Times: The modern economy has generated vast numbers of pointless jobs,
![Opinion: We’re in the middle of a loneliness epidemic. Have more sex, please!](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Opinion: We’re in the middle of a loneliness epidemic. Have more sex, please!
New York Times: Sexlessness says something grim about society, says Magdalene Taylor.
![New Kate photo proves Meghan wrong](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
New Kate photo proves Meghan wrong
Opinion: Kate has just managed to squash one of her sister-in-law’s biggest claims.
![Editorial: A national state of urgency](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Editorial: A national state of urgency
OPINION: Our editorial on the ferocious scale of Cyclone Gabrielle.
![A Capital Letter: Our embarrassing Interislander ferries are now frightening](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
A Capital Letter: Our embarrassing Interislander ferries are now frightening
The Kaitaki narrowly avoided disaster after declaring a mayday with 864 on board.
![Opinion: Submissions expose horrors of David Parker’s RMA reform proposals](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Opinion: Submissions expose horrors of David Parker’s RMA reform proposals
Law reform proposals have been a long time in the making.
![Hawke’s Bay’s day of horror: We thought we were grazing a bullet, until it spun around a corner](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Hawke’s Bay’s day of horror: We thought we were grazing a bullet, until it spun around a corner
OPINION: The water drenched us, the power cut crippled us.
![Steve Braunias: The good, the bad and the ugly of Cyclone Gabrielle](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Steve Braunias: The good, the bad and the ugly of Cyclone Gabrielle
Poor, fragile, eroding, drenched, crushed, once was staggeringly beautiful Auckland.
![Liam Dann: A glimmer of calm in the food inflation storm](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Liam Dann: A glimmer of calm in the food inflation storm
The trend looks good but weather impacts are still to be measured.
![Claire Trevett: The challenge ahead for PM Hipkins’ handling of Cyclone Gabrielle](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Claire Trevett: The challenge ahead for PM Hipkins’ handling of Cyclone Gabrielle
OPINION: So far so good - Hipkins knows a thing or two from Covid about crisis governing.
![I'm a cancer survivor. This is why what you eat and drink matters](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
I'm a cancer survivor. This is why what you eat and drink matters
Telegraph: Need more evidence that your lifestyle choices matter? Read on.
![Political Roundup: Luxon’s leadership under threat](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Political Roundup: Luxon’s leadership under threat
OPINION: National will be considering whether to make a move against its leader.
![Why you should schedule sex](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Why you should schedule sex
If you're in a rut, want to shake things up or try something new, there are many benefits.
![Simon Wilson: After the deluge - rates rises and community cuts](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Simon Wilson: After the deluge - rates rises and community cuts
OPINION: Auckland Council is rethinking its budget cuts, but not well enough.
![Repeated rain destabilises Kiwi perches](/pf/resources/images/placeholders/placeholder_l.png?d=793)
Repeated rain destabilises Kiwi perches
OPINION: Our editorial on Cyclone Gabrielle lashing already-sodden areas.