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Chester Borrows: Need to hit the right target
The risk aversion of police is such that they deny the return of many firearms licences.
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Chester Borrows: Parole ban not the answer
Blunt instruments should never be used for precise procedures
Chester Borrows: Why prisoners need care
"What do you think we should do with people who do bad things?"
Chester Borrows: From the mouths of babes . . .
It's not the New Zealand I want to live in, but it's the only New Zealand some people know
Chester Borrows: Easy living in a lucky country
A big, fat kereru sits on a kahikatea outside the window as I brew the day's first coffee.
Chester Borrows: I wouldn't cross the street to hear Don Brash's views
Why should Don Brash be spared the challenge to his 1970s view of New Zealand's future?
Chester Borrows: International students reveal how easy our kids have it
Foreign visitors show us life beyond NZ, but also make us re-appraise our own country
Chester Borrows: Learn your history, no matter how unpalatable it might be
The Land Wars had a greater impact on NZ than any of the campaigns we commemorate
Chester Borrows: MPs must be brave enough to do what is right rather than what is popular
I kick myself more for what I didn't do and say, than feel proud of what I achieved
Chester Borrows: Under Donald, clubs are trumps
Why do 50 per cent of Americans think Trump is the answer to their confused question?
Chester Borrows: Justice must be based on evidence, not emotion
We need protections for victims and offenders -- because they are largely the same people
Chester Borrows: Don't worry - there is always an old white guy to blame
'Stale, pale males" may end up so under-represented they become a sought-after demographic
Politicians bailed Air NZ out - the airline can't now complain about Shane Jones
Politics kept Air NZ alive when it was down to its last gasp. Now politics wants payback.
Chester Borrows: Back-to-school lessons for all
Boards with women on them succeed at a higher rate than those with only stale, pale males.
Chester Borrows: In search of the full-blooded Kiwi
Focusing on the things connecting us makes a strong community and a nation to be proud of.
Chester Borrows: You have to hunt where the ducks are
Entrenching the core vote and alienating the centre won't grow support for the party.