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Rachel Stewart: Dinosaurs keep hawking past as Godzone's future
COMMENT: A clear vision of agriculture in NZ will not be forthcoming from usual suspects.

Comment: Crown Research Institutes are dragging down our universities
Comment: Something like $750 million goes to CRIs, money universities would cherish.

Comment: Why Shane Jones' Billion Tree scheme will fail
Comment: China takes 75% of our logs, you could say we have all our logs in one basket.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: End of Life Choice Bill
Comment: New Zealanders should be given the opportunity to have their voices heard.

Comment: Baby uplift saga raises pertinent questions
COMMENT: Change must start at the top in NZ's horrific saga of uplifting newborn babies.

Rachel Stewart: Everyone has a right to tell their truth
COMMENT: It's my absolute right to express an honestly held opinion, even if it offends.

Satire: A world flipped upside down - the plight of being white
Dawn Picken puts herself in the shoes of someone of a different ethnicity.

Why we are publishing the photograph of mosque shooting accused
COMMENT: The issue has generated intense debate on both sides.

Rachel Stewart: Rail on track but climate challenges ignored
Comment: When will Government change their emphasis on solving the biggest crisis of all.

Rachel Stewart: Hounds of left are woke and I'm running scared
COMMENT: Govt cronies hate dissent and are eyeing speech laws.

Pilot scheme for regional reporters is good news
Reporter numbers in regions have fallen by 28 per cent in the last three to five years.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Down to brass tax - rich have no reason to fear fair
A Capital Gains Tax equals a fairer system of taxation, Raukawa-Tait argues.

Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too
COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.

Rachel Stewart: Dignified death of a feisty farm cat
COMMENT: This isn't really a column about my dead cat, though it might appear that way.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: How times have changed for young people
Who would want to be a young person embarking on adult life these days?

Rachel Stewart: Outlook grim despite the allure of denial
COMMENT: Species extinction and extreme weather are only going to get worse.

Remembering the Christchurch terror: Borne on wings of hope
Simon Wilson reflects on what Christchurch tragedy means for NZ and where we go from here.

Rachel Stewart: Owning firearms a privilege not a right
COMMENT: Whatever Govt decides, I am fully prepared to relinquish my semi-automatics.

Soper: Someone likely to end up as toast after Nats SFO probe
COMMENT: Simon Bridges was subdued and he looked shocked as he talked to journalists.

Doco on Michael Jackson 'changes everything'
COMMENT: As a life-long Jackson fan, it took the horrors of this doco to wake me up.

Rachel Stewart: Can we separate the art from the artist?
COMMENT: I don't believe you can rewrite history. It's already made.

Claire Trevett: Air NZ fare cuts won't shut Shane Jones up
Comment: It might help temper Shane Jones' ego if Air NZ stopped granting his every wish.

Critics' hate speech ensures Jordan Peterson stays popular
COMMENT: Peterson is bringing the degradation of public discourse into sharp relief.

'Our love was turned into a circus': Woman's tirade against Marvelly, partner
COMMENT: This years pride feels like a bandaid trying to staunch the bleeding..

Rachel Stewart: Fry me a river, climate denialists
COMMENT: There's no ignoring what's happening with the weather all over the world.

Bridges the Merkel, Collins the Trump?
COMMENT: On the eve of Waitangi, will Simon Bridges be the leader we need?

Claire Trevett: National's problem? Getting rid of Winston
National ruling out NZ First would be akin to dumping a lover before they could dump you.

Rachel Stewart: I'm back and I'm not staying quiet
COMMENT: I am rebranding as the only columnist any rational person will ever want.

Rachel Stewart: Environment, Facebook, free speech among big issues of 2018
COMMENT: Rachel Stewart looks back on 2018.