It is often said in favour of prisoner rehabilitation programmes that every offender has to be released eventually. That's not quite true.

We should be reducing debt faster while the good times last, not talking about tax cuts.

The theory of tradeable quotas always sounded too good to be true.

Whatever the source of the demand for Auckland houses, it will remain insatiable if the Government pretends it is purely a problem of supply.

The Bachelor NZ, the television show which unravelled off-screen these past few days, ended its season a ratings hit.

The Government should tilt the market in favour of those still waiting for the Kiwi dream.

A man drives into a bridge and a city grinds to a halt. Such is the impact of a crash on Auckland's vulnerable motorway system.

The election of a candidate of Islamic Pakistani extraction as mayor of London is a proud moment for Britain and inclusion of minorities in its politics.

It is not often that international solutions work so well but when it happens, it deserves a tentative cheer.

The primary school system is in trouble. It is failing some of the young pupils who can least afford to be left behind.

The requirement for all rental properties to be insulated by mid-2019 was just a step in the right direction.

The fear is MediaWorks is losing too much talent. It needs to show it is still a serious competitor for visual news and current affairs.

EDITORIAL: Our "Home Truths" series has concluded with some possible solutions to runaway house prices that leave many facing rented housing for the rest of lives.

As Olympic torch makes its way from Athens to Brazil, the Latin American country is gripped by crises which threaten to overwhelm the battered host city.

Lizzie Marvelly has today written bravely about harassment she has endured at the hands of men in the music industry.

The bank and the Government need new solutions to the economic damage being done by this raging house market.

The Prime Minister's talk of a new tax on land is a sign that he is worried by the resurgence in house prices, as he should be.

People should be able to come home at the end of their working day. In New Zealand, that is less sure than in Australia or the United Kingdom.

Our forebears came to NZ to escape perpetual tenancy and have property of their own. That has been the Kiwi dream and there is no reason to give it up now.

Ratepayers in Hawkes Bay have every reason to expect accountability and transparency from a big irrigation project in the region.

Australia's politics continue to be as turbulent as New Zealand's are calm.

It may be a reflection of an unusually long and warm summer, now past, that the numbers of homeless on Auckland's streets appears to have increased lately.

An international conference at the United Nations headquarters this week is expected to agree that the UN's "war on drugs" is over, and it has failed.

Rugby is an industry in which New Zealand dominates the world, and the remuneration of its international players reflects its success.

Auckland estate agents were jubilant this week at figures showing house prices and sales volumes in the city had taken off again.

Some owners will attest that their pet is as placid as any canine breed can be, but that is not saying very much. Many an owner of a normally docile dog knows it is not completely reliable.

Councils everywhere will welcome the Government's move to take the water fluoridating decision out of their hands and give it to DHB's.

It would be useful to hear the conclusions of someone from outside, not least because the Panama Papers call into question New Zealand's good faith as an international citizen.

A four-point drop in a Colmar Brunton poll taken for TVNZ last week must be a shock to supporters of the Labour Party.

Statistics rule our world in many ways, but their value is surely taken too far when they tell us the rate of successful criminal prosecutions is too high.