Dawn Picken: Once upon a time, I could venture with my kids
Opinion: The anti-staycation: where you wish you had left home but stayed to work instead.
Opinion: The anti-staycation: where you wish you had left home but stayed to work instead.
"The few police on the embankment were brushed aside like feathers."
OPINION: Overriding concern was accountability to local ratepayers would be removed
Opinion: As the impact of Covid-19 rages on, are we being too soft with the benefit?
OPINION: White supremacists do exist in our country, though hopefully not in great numbers
OPINION: It is common practice to give koha when you visit someone, anyone
"I love my country... but I have never felt the need to shout it from the rooftops."
COMMENT: What is it that makes you wake up and want to go to work every day?
OPINION: Make it as easy as possible for people to say yes.
Opinion: If we, as a city, give any space to racism, it reflects on all of us.
Let's not come out the other side of Covid meaner in attitude and human spirit.
If health is 'needs-based', why haven't Māori health needs been addressed yet?
COMMENT: There comes a point when you realise there is no quick fix to debt.
OPINION: The people of Tolaga Bay and East Cape have shown us how we all ought to live.
COMMENT: Many will feel ashamed about what they learn, writes Rob Rattenbury.
Opinion: We have room in our hearts for everyone, why not let them in, just like Ness did?
Opinion: Luke Kirkness shares his thoughts after two months in the Bay of Plenty.
OPINION: Social media is a cesspool. It's also a repository for good memories.
OPINION: No amount of sympathy can put us in their shoes.
OPINION: The Confederate flag emblem of the Rotorua Stockcar Club was dropped last year.
OPINION: I have every right to represent my people and reflect their dress, culture.
Opinion: With a 95 per cent success rate, Pūwhakamua should be considered for other areas.
Opinion: We are still living in the house colonialism built and it's time to fix it.
Opinion: Name changes can be met with grumbles of history erased.
Opinion: For a teenager, postponement looks permanent. But this pause is not forever.
OPINION: Being stuck in the UK during the pandemic has been hard on Emme McKay.
Opinion: Okay, a lot of bad stuff has happened. But let's take a little break from that.
OPINION: History may be about to repeat itself.
Comment: I couldn't even recognise myself anymore but had no idea how to fix that.