Marvelly: Tell me why we are cringing
COMMENT: Let me tell you a story of broken promises, generations of injustice, second-class treatment and now, of political expediency, writes Lizzie Marvelly.
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Put your money where your mouth is
COMMENT: Reliable as clockwork, and right on cue, DairyNZ stepped up to the microphone and shot themselves in the head.
Opinion: Stand up and turn skinny model tide
COMMENT: Not everyone is long and lithe - it's time adverts celebrated a range of body shapes and sizes and recognised beauty is diverse.
Dear PM, all I want for Christmas is ...
COMMENT: New tectonic plates for Kaikoura would be a great way to start 2017 but if not world peace will do nicely.
Marvelly: Kittens not ruining journalism
COMMENT: Blame internet giants for allowing fake news to spread globally.
Marvelly: We need to talk about periods
COMMENT: In some parts of the world, girls are forced to miss school when they have their periods. Places like Kenya, Ghana, Ethiopia and. . . New Zealand.
Lizzie Marvelly: Don't fall for fake news
COMMENT: We urgently need to educate our society about media literacy and critical thinking.
Marvelly: No sir - we're not your honey
COMMENT: Reducing a woman you've never met to her physicality is not a compliment; it's weird and inappropriate.
Lizzie Marvelly: The death of Kiwi dream
COMMENT: We need to save the Kiwi dream before it's too late.
Rachel Stewart: For the love of the game
COMMENT: Sadly, the game I once loved has mutated into a smorgasbord of unsavoury fare.
What's the fuss about the Coromandel?
COMMENT: As a child of the Central North Island I can't think of a better place to be than the Bay of Plenty.
Hey, Hekia, leave those teachers alone!
COMMENT: Funding for schools should be focused on what matters most: education.
Prohibition - it should be banned
COMMENT: The deeper I delve into the issue, however, the more I am struck by just how frightening the consequences of prohibition are.
Rattue: Chiefs must front Strippergate
COMMENT: It's time for senior Chiefs players to step forward, and tell us about the team's attitude to women.
Once upon a time there was a man ...
COMMENT: Is it too much to ask that both parents take equal responsibility for their children? Or that their workplaces support them equally?
Maori must help Maori to fly high
COMMENT: Tribal authorities have an important role to play in lifting the lives and aspirations of their people.
Answers needed on Moko ruling
COMMENT: Without any explanation, a decision was made to withdraw a murder charge that shocked and appalled many.The public has not yet been told why.
Michael Barnett: Let's get our regional economies involved
COMMENT: This the right time to take some risks to lift performance of places with potential, writes Michael Barnett.
Lizzie Marvelly: 'The music industry has a problem'
Kiwi singing star Lizzie Marvelly has for the first time spoken about her experience with sexual harassment in the music industry.
Marvelly: Debate needs our iwi on board
COMMENT: The most recent issue to get the "more to Kiwi than iwi" treatment - from a disaffected group of extreme, right-wing, former politicians - is water rights.
McClay ready to make his TPP sales pitch
COMMENT: Trade Minister Todd McClay is not an openly combative politician, writes Fran O'Sullivan.
We rank every Pixar movie ever made
So many great Pixar movies, but which is best? And where will the studio's latest feature, Inside Out, sit? Dominic Corry ranks all of Pixar's movies.
Paul Lewis: Rugby spirit alive and well in Reporoa
If you ever feel rugby in New Zealand is dying (and the Blues make it seem terminally ill), go and see The Ground We Won, writes Paul Lewis.