COMMENT: Peters has always demonstrated a willingness to do a deal, says Rachel Stewart.

The shock departure of the Maori Party was the only real upset of the election.

COMMENT: A little dinner party chat revealed casual racism is alive and well in NZ.

COMMENT: Labour's leader is aspirational for women and won't pull ponytails.

COMMENT: National is talking up the urban-rural divide to get votes, says Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: Out here in the real world things are not so black and white.

COMMENT: There is overwhelming public support for a water royalty, says Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: Labour leader's magnetism has not been seen since Clark and Lange.

The Herald Inquisition: Claire Trevett assesses Jacinda Ardern and Bill English.

OPINION: Little has done all he could in the interests of his party.

All Blacks fans riven with uncertainty but this is series we have craved.

COMMENT: Could you live without advertising? Oh, dear God, how I could.

Readers respond to a suggestion that cyclists should be taxed.

Rachel Stewart explains why she's not going to be positive just to please chirpy men.

COMMENT: Quantity over quality will turn round to bite tourism industry.

COMMENT: Dairy farmers and industry mouthpieces love to say they are environmental angels.

Opinion: What exactly does a "role model" family look like?

Comment: Elderly, white males are as pesky, autumnal flies for Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: John Clarke's genius was what made him distinct, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: I've always suspected NZ's scarcity of environmental enforcement was willful.

COMMENT: Embrace the new - it's the way of the world, says Lizzie Marvelly.

COMMENT: Women taking care of women challenges the status quo, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: The Te Awa Tupua Bill is a unique approach which we need more of.

COMMENT: One of the women involved in the death of Nia Glassie about to have her fifth child. Taxpayers will raise all of them.

COMMENT: Rape culture doesn't exclusively hurt our young women, it harms our young men as well, says Lizzie Marvelly.

OPINION: They'd never had a woman on the footplate so I needed to be under 'supervision', says Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: There is only one word that can truly take responsibility for gender pay disparity, and it is sexism.

OPINION: Human capacity for animal cruelty never-ending, writes Rachel Stewart.

Years ago, a Maori boy was caught stealing lollies at the local Four Square. A report labelled him a "thug". He was 10 years old, writes Dame Susan Devoy.

COMMENT: I greatly resent Family First attempting to use experiences of sexual violence in order to advance its anti-trans agenda.