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Steve Braunias on legends of the trade: Bernard Orsman, Mark Sainsbury, Fran O’Sullivan, Cathy Campbell and Chris Rattue
Reflections on Wellington Polytechnic journalism school’s class of 1980.
Friends, neighbours, whānau: it’s time to start a movement and join the drain gang
An idea embraced by San Franciscans could help ease NZ’s stormwater drainage problems.
Duncan Garner: Chris Hipkins, social media and the fraying line between private and public life
No one wins when private lives are dragged into the public arena.
Leah McFall: Why does an apron worn in public now command such authority?
After years of symbolising enslavement in the home, wearing an apron is now a power move.
Is Germany's Radical Anti-Smartphone Front about to have its moment in the sun?
A burgeoning counter-culture movement leads the way on tech resistance.
David Harvey: The debate over gender identity and legal obligation
Respect is essential, but legal compulsion is another question.
Russell Brown: Why a $100,000+ grant to Auckland music venues raises complex questions
Smaller venues are getting over $100,000 from Spark Arena’s Community Events Fund.
Simon Wilson meets the Brit economist baffled by NZ’s lack of a wealth tax
Inequality activist Gary Stevenson lands on Auckland’s North Shore.
A grassroots approach is the solution to saving our native plant species
Weeds are overwhelming our native species. Can we stop the invasion before it's too late?
Duncan Garner: How much pain at the pump can we take - and are fuel companies making it worse?
Once again, Kiwi consumers are being taken on an expensive ride.
Steve Braunias visits the Hauraki Gulf’s snoozing cat
Braunias on his chance to step foot on Motukorea/Browns Island.
Charlotte Grimshaw: On being labelled mad
Frequently in the last few years, I have been labelled unstable, delusional, incoherent.
Law changes fail to address one of our most glaring mental health inequities
Community treatment orders are at odds with NZ’s international treaty obligations.
Aaron Smale: It’s election year and Winston Peters is already playing the race card
Peters has his lines rehearsed so well he can virtually recite them in his sleep.
Judging a judge: Steve Braunias on the historic hearing into the curious case of Judge Ema Aitken
The two-week inquisition made legal and constitutional history: a judge on trial.
Andrew Anthony: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest is the latest in a roll-call of dubious royal dealings
Longstanding royal practices are under pressure, including the King's own behaviour.
Duncan Garner: This weekend could be the most significant of Christopher Luxon’s political career
Who allowed PM to take a word salad to a press conference & will he finally read the room?
Leah McFall: The one item that proves beyond doubt you’ve become middle-class
Own this one thing and you have become a card-carrying member of the Comfortable Middle.
Law by language? David Harvey on courts, the vocabulary of advocacy and policy creep
Courts wield soft power through concepts they validate, so words must be chosen with care.
Russell Brown: Infrastructure Commission report reveals the folly of some government pet projects
The government is struggling to distinguish 'needs' from 'wants'.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation rides high once more buoyed by a wave of anti-immigration sentiment
The mid-December massacre at Bondi has fuelled the newly febrile debate around migration.
Solar power is the world’s cheapest source of energy, so why aren’t we using it?
The government lacks policy for climate action that could lower the cost of living.
Duncan Garner: Record electricity prices and profits should remind MPs people have the power
When essential services produce windfall profits in a downturn, something feels wrong.
Charlotte Grimshaw: The broadcasters of Pod Save America visit Auckland
Politics in their country is now beyond a joke.
For Māori, the 'science' and 'evidence' being applied to our education system is not fit for purpose
Erica Stanford cites brain science; what about trauma’s deep imprint on young minds?
Former National MP: 'Political calls to withdraw from the Paris Agreement are a complete distraction'
Climate denialism is growing but we must stick with the principles of the Paris Agreement.
Last post for journalism: Weak reporting has helped normalise US corruption
Once people would have been prosecuted and jailed for acts that now go unreported.
Leah McFall: Foragers are irritating middle class thieves and don’t get me started on wild swimmers
Why foraging and wild swimming have got to be the world’s most pretentious hobbies.
Duncan Garner: Could Luxon’s slide cost Nicola Willis her job?
Nicola Willis could be a high profile casualty if election results don't go National's way