"I'm so frustrated," Tony Lepage said. "Our Government is spending $26 million on the flag - $26 million would be swallowed up for the homeless in a week".

Where does time go? And why are some people so hopeless at keeping it? Kim Knight despairs.

COMMENT: It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why the Government isn't making election promises to those in need.

COMMENT: We have launched the very first Bullying Free NZ week and a much awaited resource for our schools and, more importantly, our children.

Nia Glassie and Moko Rangitoheriri were both beaten to death at the age of 3.

COMMENT: The problem of families with children forced to live in third-world conditions is eminently resolvable, writes Bryan Gould.

COMMENT: Maoris are more in need of learning parenting skills than are non-Maoris and that applies to a lot of Pacific Island parents too.

COMMENT: Men are too scared to work with kids. It's too dicey an area for them. As a result children miss out on good, solid male role models.

COMMENT: Let's take action on homelessness which has a better chance of fixing the problem and which returns our pavements to pedestrians.

We are now being routinely alerted to words that might elicit traumatic memories. but, asks, Kim Knight, is this just a cotton-wool response to real life?

A social worker working with Auckland's homeless population says the vacant former Civic Administration Building should be used to house the homeless.

Kiwi workers are putting in an average of about $3000 worth of unpaid overtime for their employers every year, a new survey suggests.

The growing number of elderly Chinese migrants entering NZ to reunite with family and being left alone is a major concern, an immigration expert says.

A Sydney radio show is setting the bra high for Mother's Day with a mother-daughter boob job up for grabs.

Chances are that we all multitask. It has become easier than ever with the advent of new technologies that let us juggle screens - and even multiple things on each of those screens.

Six out of every seven New Zealanders aged 16 to 24 with driver's licences are breaching their licence conditions, an official study has found.

COMMENT: The highly adverse effects from our present immigration policies are now glaringly apparent. Our resources, unlike America's, are finite, writes John Gascoigne

More families are living in cars and asking for food parcels as a growing minority are missing out on basics that most New Zealanders take for granted.

COMMENT: Why do some political leaders change their tune on drugs once they're no longer actively involved in politics?

An 81-year-old man who has been on welfare for 29 years has had his benefit stopped because Winz has belatedly decided that he didn't meet residency requirements.

An Auckland iwi has bought a block of Crown land at Hobsonville to build 430 homes - but iwi have failed to bid for the next block offered in Massey.

COMMENT: I have a pathological reaction to bullies like Wiremu Perry. You have to stand up to all thugs or they'll run right over you.

Should skirt lengths matter? Rose Hoare talks to students, parents and teachers about the politics of how teenage girls dress.

Experts believe Auckland's housing crisis may be lowering city's birth rate, as young adults shut out of buying homes are forced to live with parents.

It may be a reflection of an unusually long and warm summer, now past, that the numbers of homeless on Auckland's streets appears to have increased lately.

COMMENT: Tale of two women: tax credit system leaves those without a partner for support at an unfair disadvantage.

COMMENT: It's easy to assess the value of an asset in a liquid and rising market, but the future liabilities are not so easy to see.

COMMENT: Drugs that do nothing for you up to that point have no redeeming social benefit to my mind. But it's not my business.

COMMENT: This refusal to confront the obesity-diabetes epidemic is like a replay of the global warming crisis fiasco, writes Brian Rudman