Today, Pita Sharples will carry out the first reading of the new Maori Language Bill 2014 in Parliament.

The former director of Sir Owen Glenn's family violence inquiry has produced her own solution without waiting for the inquiry to finish its work.

Children's "vulnerability" is more like a revolving door than a fixed state, a new report has found.

The curriculum in New Zealand schools is "compulsory" and nobody minds - until it is suggested that all New Zealand children should be given a grounding in te reo Maori.

He went inside the minds of our most dangerous prisoners, told us how to bring up our kids, and now Nigel Latta turns moral guardian in search of answers to society’s biggest problems.

'Let's go and have a look around," is how my Dad announces a trip to a town whose main draws are a supermarket and an obese pigeon.

The Labour leader apologised for being a man and the lid came off a sizeable can of worms, writes Patricia Greig.

When Lilly McDonald first heard about an online group offering stuff for nothing, she didn't believe it.

Actress Angelina Jolie will visit the asylum seeker detention centre on Nauru in a move likely to put further international pressure on the Australian Government's harsh policies.

Jake Miller was head prefect of his school with a $40,000 scholarship to study law waiting for him.

Derryn Hinch wants to be able to turn on his mobile phone and see the names of all sex offenders in the neighbourhood.

Mother of two Jenny Daniell-Wiig used to rely on a foodbank to feed her family on a regular basis. But with help, she's made changes.

Tracing my whakapapa or family tree is something I'm looking forward to and there are some awesome people who are going to help me do it.

Jonathan Boston and Simon Chapple, authors of Child Poverty in New Zealand, rightly fume at the nonchalant political response to the finding of serious errors in measured child poverty.

Those on paid parental leave will be able to work occasionally on "keeping in touch days" without losing their entitlement under moves to increase the scheme's flexibility.

Would-be immigrants with higher-level English language skills may be given higher priority after an international review of New Zealand's migration policy.

Power companies are offering some of their best deals door-to-door as competition intensifies for electricity customers.

Pregnant women are being reminded to heed dietary guidelines because not doing so can result in the death of unborn children.

If we emphasise that teenage mothers will do badly in life, they are far more likely to, writes Verity Johnson.

PM John Key has signalled possible loosening of euthanasia laws, saying he would sympathise with "speeding up of the process" of death for a terminally ill patient.

Dr Ellen Nicholson and Jenni Mace detail six ways to keep young people safe through adolescence.

Some weeks ago I called in at the small liquor store attached to the dairy around the corner from our street.

When I was growing up, bullying at school was a fact of life, almost a rite of passage. If you complained about it, you were told to toughen up, writes Peter Hughes.

We would be immensely better off if the American dream values became instilled in our school children, as they are in America, writes Bob Jones.

A complaint against a school principal for ignoring bullying concerns has been passed to police to investigate.

Campaigners have convinced the Government that a sniff of free booze will instantly turn Kiwis into alcoholics and criminals. I'm not so sure, writes Matt Heath.

Practically everything I got angry about this year - parking rules, bigots, uptight parenting - is really just about my fear of death, writes Deborah Hill Cone.

Ghetto kid turned presidential hopeful Ben Carson is in New Zealand to help celebrate as the Duffy Books in Homes scheme turns 20.