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Stephanie Worsop: Knowing when to hang up my clubbing shoes
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Dawn Picken: It's time to think about reopening the border
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Luke Kirkness: We need to be proactive, not reactive
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Jo Raphael: Rates are a necessary evil
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Opinion: Lockdown needs innovation, not just risk management
After a year of Covid-19 it seems we haven't learned anything.
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Zizi Sparks: Urgent focus needed on challenged children
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Matt Cowley: Funding our region's future
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Stephanie Worsop: More to be done to achieve true gender equality
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Stephanie Worsop: Going down the rabbit hole of pet peeves
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Dawn Picken: It's not cancel culture, it's progress
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Jo Raphael: Aucklanders who escape lockdown are putting us at risk
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Danielle van Dalen: Keep politics local to avoid anxiety
It's the local decisions that have the biggest impact on our daily lives.
Zoe Hunter: The Auckland ripple effect - we all need to be responsible
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Letters to the editor: Council needs to sort out Omanawa Falls
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Luke Kirkness: Pandemic complacency should be punished
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Jo Raphael: Our child poverty shame is letting us down
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Claire Trevett: What's eating Simon Bridges?
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