
Kate labels PC world BS
I'm a woman on the edge people. Pushed to breaking point and finally ready to push back. Sick to bloody death of being bullied
I'm a woman on the edge people. Pushed to breaking point and finally ready to push back. Sick to bloody death of being bullied
LIKE Green Party member Chris Cresswell, I, too, was in Auckland last week for the Royal New Zealand Navy's 75th anniversary. Unlike
THE worst-kept secret in town is now official - Whanganui is to be the nation's new capital city. Any day now, following extensive
Guy McPherson is nothing, if not controversial. His human extinction within 10 years prediction polarises people. And attracts large
WE HAD a bit of a Guy Fawkes evening the other night. It was all very low key. I brought home a large old washing machine drum and
EVENTS over the past two weeks in the rest of the country and now, with the vandalism and attempted arson of Whanganui's surf lifesaving
The news that Kerry James Borrows - aka Chester - is stepping away from politics prior to next year's General Election is not a great
Another White Ribbon Day last Friday, and another good crowd supporting the cause of ending domestic violence against women. It is
Looking back I realise I have had a privileged art education. At Parakino Maori School I was a day one student in the new modernist
THE sixth anniversary of the Pike River disaster has been and gone with some new information exposed. Radio New Zealand's Checkpoint
I'M NOT known for quoting from The Bible, but Luke 21:11, "There will be great earthquakes ... famines and plagues ... and there
MacTRUMP Act 4, Scene 1: An alley alongside a luxury apartment building - in the middle, a boiling cauldron. Thunder. Enter three
I don't know about you but the last three weeks are proof that we're living in unsettled times. Depending on your point of view
The Honorable Chris Finlayson can come across as a rather cold fish, a tightly-buttoned intellectual. But yesterday he was all smiles
MOHAMMED Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president, has now been in prison more than three times as long as he was in
Trump beat 'em all Jay Kuten (November 16) makes some good points about the US election but fails to deliver an accurate assessment. He
THIS week is White Ribbon Week when family violence is at the front of our minds as a country -- that is, as a society that should
YES, God inflicted the June 2015 flood on Whanganui because of a scourge of parking fine defaulters ... as we know. We know, because
WE NEED to continue the conversation about the US election. Unlike the deliberative process designed by the constitution's framers
JUST after midnight on Monday, November 14, New Zealand was struck by another severe earthquake. Initially recorded as a 7.5, it turned
I READ with interest a story in the Chronicle last week that reported on our mayor, Hamish McDouall, suggesting an option for Government
Since the 1950s farmers have been working to control erosion, but there's a lot we still don't know about the processes involved
Port upgrade With the recent earthquakes showing us how much we depend on highly vulnerable ferry crossings through a most unsuitable
"SAD thoughts trouble my sleep at night," said South Korea's President Park Geun-hye. "I realise that whatever I do, it will be difficult
BY MY definition, a millisphere is a "sphere of interest" of 1000th of the total world population; a region of roughly 7 million
OVER the years I've dedicated a lot of column inches to quoting people far more brilliant than I in order to push my point with polish. A
THERE is an increasing trend in New Zealand and overseas towards offloading responsibilities for conservation action on to community
WHILST quoting my humble hero, Leonard Cohen, last week, I was unaware he was dying. I'd recently shared a link to his latest album
Jurors' pay Who advocates for the jurors? It's a crime how little a jury member is paid for their time in this country. At $31
YOU can't but think Whanganui is on the cusp of something really big when you stand on the riverside and watch a massive ferry with