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Humans are social creatures, there's nothing therapeutic about eight months in isolation.

It has been a good year for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s international profile.

The whole point of parenting is to make yourself slowly redundant, and that's not easy.

There's a fine art to self affirmation but it's worth learning.

Some imagination would not have gone amiss here.

Where unlawfulness is established, doing nothing risks signalling compliance is optional.

Cities need events and events need venues.

Even imperfect experts can still deliver life-saving public health advice.

Australia’s most-decorated living soldier faces years in limbo after war crimes charges.

If there is a lesson, it is simple, but hard: remember them.

American lives are being fetishised during the war with over the top vainglory.

The festival provides a space where Māori don’t have to justify their existence.

Calling out flimsy self-justifications, hackneyed explanations and elaborate rationales.

Membership requires a proposer, seconder and three supporters. I really want to join.

How a school rugby trip highlights the importance of education outside the classroom.

Prime Minister draws worldwide attention to a national embarrassment.

Yes, but - the uncomfortable feeling that we're being dragged into a dangerous new world.

Want to get a council decision to go your way? Work with them to find common ground.

References to the Doctrine of Discovery distract from genuine historical wrongs.

Charges for low-level drug offences are at their highest number in a decade.

With rising support, Peters stops being kingmaker and starts making a case to be king.

Game creator wants to unite families & friends in fun - and highlight chronic fatigue.

An artist after my own heart, he had a terrible time and wanted to express it in his work.

Shane Jones's proposal to catch baby fish ran into public the coalition opposition.

Reform's polling average has fallen 5 percentage points since August.

Strange things that were big in my childhood just keep coming back.

There are other things happening in the world other than the mad king and his war.

Charges against a man accused of damaging Treaty of Waitangi exhibit have been dismissed.

Fossil-fuel dependency has long undermined national security, the economy and wellbeing.