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Netflix's new True Crime series attempts to solve an audacious unsolved crime.
Shane Jones: Inflation runs amok while MPs chase their tails
OPINION: 'We need to boost our foreign exchange coffers from land and sea.'
Matthew Hooton: The method in Labour's migration makeover
OPINION: Government believes it has discovered an easier pathway to high-wage heaven.
Opinion: At last, a cap on water bottling madness
The Court of Appeal overturned consents for two companies to take and bottle water.
Oi oi oi: The Aussie slang you might not know
From sheila to oi and all the Aussie, Aussie, Aussies in between.
Lamonte: Raising the high-water mark on consultation
OPINION: Watercare chief executive on new measures to gauge public sentiment.
Editorial: When is a death a Covid death?
OPINION: Our editorial on changes to how Covid mortality is reported to the WHO.
Shane Te Pou: Is the Trump hangover finally beginning to subside?
OPINION: There are signs conservative voters are turning away from the former President.
Sideswipe: Miffed muffin
A daily column looking at humorous, satirical and simply strange news.
Letters: Foot and mouth danger
OPINION: Letters on inflation, Leo Molloy, supermarkets, Uvalde, boxing, and democracy.
Quarry quandary: Shortage looms for crucial home, roads building material
OPINION: As a nation we appear to have lost the ability to build and maintain roads.
Liam Dann: Is a housing crash the secret weapon in war on inflation?
Housing offers clues to an inflation peak - just don't expect prices to stop rising soon.
The PM and the maskless photo - have we got too precious?
OPINION: A photo of the PM with youth MPs has caused a flutter. Fair criticism or not?
The Government is just like the All Blacks with its Three Waters reforms
Are they going to scrap Three Waters? No, writes John MacDonald.
The only greeting that won't offend anyone
Lee Suckling reveals how to avoid sounding sexist and 'like a bro' when you say 'hello'.
Richard Prebble: Three Waters is a Govt coup - an attack on democracy
Legislation would erode the principle of one person, one vote.
Juha Saarinen: Cyber security experts Cert NZ have some pretty oddball notions
Passwords are a bad idea and not even experts always know how manage them.
Letters: Govt's fuel tax take
OPINION: Letters on inflation, abuse in care, fruit-picking, schooling and Ian Foster.
Opinion: Gang crackdown isn't a patch on 'real solutions'
OPINION: Effective efforts to reduce crime and the harms caused would look very different.
Comment: Wellington fluoride failure a scandal in a league of its own
Surely someone spared a thought for fluoridation's oral health benefits? Apparently not.
Sideswipe: Tanks for the approval
A daily column looking at humorous, satirical and simply strange news.
Mike Hosking: Think big Christchurch - city's future is what we could only dream of
OPINION: Christchurch is every bit the gateway to the country as Auckland is.
Editorial: Sick days hit the workforce
OPINION: Our editorial on New Zealanders soldiering on through a second Covid wave.
Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: NZ's future leaders ready to be heard right now
To witness rangatahi speak out about their reality gives great hope for the future.
Bryce Edwards: How much of our cost-of-living crisis is due to incompetence?
OPINION: It's ordinary people who are suffering the most from the current crisis.
No Minister, more spending won't help keep inflation down
Opinion: To sell targeted fiscal spending as keeping inflation under control is a stretch.
Inflation is 2022's boogeyman. How can we address rising living costs, while helping bring it down?
OPINION: Inflation hurts salary and wage earners who get pushed into higher tax brackets.
Sam Clench: Five words from Scott Morrison illuminate his worldview
OPINION: We don't trust governments. We don't trust the United Nations, thank goodness.
Letters: Abuse in care? The state knew
OPINION: Letters on housing, Te Kaha stadium, Ian Foster, gangs, and vaccine mandates.
Simon Wilson: Wayne Brown, Leo Molloy locked in absurd wedge politics
OPINION: Some of Auckland's leading mayoral candidates are saying the strangest things.
Kerry Warkia: 'Our work provokes and helps people see life from different perspectives'
The film producer speaks to Elisabeth Easther.
No place I'd rather be - making the move from Auckland to Christchurch a life changer
Super City: Reporter Anna Leask on why she returned after 12 years in Auckland.