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Rachel Stewart: Environment, Facebook, free speech among big issues of 2018
COMMENT: Rachel Stewart looks back on 2018.
COMMENT: Rachel Stewart looks back on 2018.
As in any workplace, allegations of harassment in Parliament should be investigated.
Nicola Patrick on the spirit of Christmas
COMMENT: "Well, team," I said to caucus this morning, "Merry Christmas!"
Former comic puts on another great show, this time talking to students about mental health
COMMENT: "Pinetree" Jones, the answer to all our Christmas present woes ...
COMMENT: All human beings deserve human rights and respect.
COMMENT: I lie awake most nights and worry about the careless spending of taxpayers money.
COMMENT: Today's 'feminists' generally leave me underwhelmed.
Deviant, often a bad thing, but are there good deviants?
COMMENT: It's as though the walls are closing in on the Minister of Immigration.
It's looking good for the existence of life elsewhere in the universe.
We heard the angry mob, but the silence of others spoke volumes about The Cliffsofmoher.
Every submission counts; every voice does get weighed up against those it opposes
It's time we tackled the fireworks issue.
Here I sit plotting my next move ... er, here I sit plotting my next move ...
COMMENT: Rise of Brazil's Bolsonaro next step in far-right's troubling march.
COMMENT: Judith Collins stayed just two steps behind Simon Bridges this week.
We are left in the heart of the CBD with a stark, under-used area for outdoor relaxation.
The financial sector still regards itself as 'too big to be allowed to fail'
I have walked the footpaths in most NZ cities and have never seen anything so disgraceful
Perhaps art visits us daily in the guise of reality TV with all its vacuous grotesquery.
Saudi Arabia annually cuts off more heads than Isis has done in all its years of existence
Opinion: The world will not be any worse off with legalised dope.
COMMENT: The saga of rogue MP has this week transfixed the nation.
COMMENT: It needs WWIII to turn this overloaded, burning, sinking global ship around.
It seems women and girls will continue to be treated as "the weaker sex" in sport
Readers write: Stop seabed mining; putting virtue on show; guilty till proven innocent
We need to make long-term changes and look beyond cost, inconvenience and fear of change