The company has made changes after a Farmers staff member asked if it was okay to let "half-man, half-woman" in.

Saying a particular group of people is doing a particular thing is not racism. If I said most inmates are Maori or that Browns Bay is full of S Africans, I wouldn't be accused of racism, Heather du Plessis-Allan writes.

NZ has one of the world's lowest organ donation rates, sparking concerns more needs to be done to save lives. Part 2 of our Organ Donation series.

Bad manners can be contagious, a study suggests. It found that those who experience rudeness in the workplace are more likely to be impolite to colleagues.

Anna Hart shows her appreciation for the new self-help trend taking the world by storm.

The Turkish woman was as wizened and brown as a date. The date smiled out at me from a magenta headscarf.

An Australian artist is on a mission to collect 100 photographs of women in their underwear for a project that aims to promote body love and diversity.

You'd think that, between the filters and the #fitnessgoals and the celebrity-grams, Instagram would make an unfriendly place to talk body acceptance. But the opposite is actually true.

A new gender classification for people who don't see themselves as just male or female has been developed and New Zealand will be the first to use it.

The Ku Klux Klan is flourishing and exploiting racial tension in the US, according to a behind-the-scenes documentary.

Sixteen months after a Government decision to end most of its contracts, the Problem Gambling Foundation has won a year’s further reprieve.

A long-term contract to inspect all state houses for potential risks to health and safety was axed the year before two Auckland tenants died last winter.

NZ has one of the world's lowest organ donation rates, sparking concerns more needs to be done to save lives.

Imagine if you could invest $14.1 million up front and get a return over the next 50 years of $3.3 billion. Would you do it?

I want to know what is going on in people's heads as they shuffle towards me, on the footpath, engrossed in the device they hold in their hand.

A campaign grows in support of two Moroccan woman accused of "gross indecency" for wearing dresses considered provocative.

Women have found a wacky way to fight censorship of their breasts on social media, covering them with images of male nipples.

A survey has found almost 100,000 people living in institutions, caravans and other circumstances apart from normal, private houses.

Eight Kiwi companies - including six fashion brands - have joined a New Zealand-led campaign to eliminate child labour.

Winning does and will continue to matter in children's sport so long as you keep score. That's just human nature, writes John Dybvig.

In the last five years 16 complaints have been made to the Human Rights Commission about discrimination against transgender people in New Zealand.

It's one thing to use our own money to bank with the Australians as most of us do, but taxpayer money on social services to foreigners is entering a new realm, writes Mike Hosking.

More New Zealanders will be able to get free doctors' visits as part of a raft of changes which come into force today.

A transgender shopper claims she was ridiculed by an assistant while trying on shorts at a department store in Auckland. Farmers are investigating the claims.

Human Rights Commissioner says: "What happened to Mary isn't new but it highlights the bullying and hate that transgender New Zealanders face all too often."

Bill English's willingness to allow a foreign housing provider to buy NZ state houses veers close to allowing blind ideology to get the better of common sense, says John Armstrong.

More New Zealanders are ending up unintentionally childless and the childless rate is higher for professional women.

The results of a probe into retirement village residents' complaints and disputes with their owners and managers will be revealed next month and could lead to a shake-up.

Republican candidate Mike Huckabee told conservatives the Supreme Court tried to "unwrite the laws of nature and the laws of nature's God" when it legalised gay marriage across the United States.

Readers have been digging deep to help the Middlemore Foundation make sure needy children are warm this winter.