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We must fight vaccine misinformation

Editorial: To repeat any of these falsehoods is to risk giving them legs.

Leigh-Marama McLachlan: A right royal addition long overdue

"It was known as Whanganui for hundreds of years before you were born."

Opinion: Three waters - a disaster in the pipeline?

Proposed sweeping water reforms threaten local democracy, writes councillor Alan Taylor.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: Māori in fight of our lives against cancer

OPINION: Crisis often reveals how strong we can be when we have to be.

Comment: Why I will be getting the Covid-19 vaccine

"I get the impression the ministry was severely underprepared for this process."

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: We need more Māori on TV - and not on Police Ten 7

OPINION: Racism is a disease that should not spread to children.

Teuila Fuatai: Are flexible work conditions Covid's silver lining?

OPINION: While many struggle, for others, Covid has reinvented work.

Rob Rattenbury: Transtasman 'mateship' a mistaken belief

Australians could not give a toss about upsetting the New Zealand Government.

Debbie Ngarewa-Packer: As much as wearing somethng is a form of activism, so is choosing not to wear it

How we dress can be one of the most powerful symbols of who we are.

Teuila Fuatai: Abortion, Harete Hipango and the PM

COMMENT: The abortion debate finds its way back to the political chambers.

'Cannabis harmful to young adults and teenagers'

Comment: Cannabis is damaging to young brains and linked to lower incomes later in life.

Doug Sellman: Cannabis inherently safer than alcohol

Comment: Cannabis causes less harm than alcohol in nine of 13 medical outcomes.

Jamie Mackay: Wake me up after September's election

COMMENT: We're on track for the most economically-defining election in a generation.

'The racism was blatant': Cafe refused to let Māori woman use the toilet

The cafe then let a Pākehā woman use it, her daughter recalls.

Learn from Christchurch: Don't assume we'll get 'business as usual' soon

The sooner we face reality the sooner we can adapt to it

Editorial: Agriculture must again lead us to recovery

We say: Winter is coming, not just weather-wise, and farmers are feeling it too.

Letters: Council playing cat and mouse with pet owners

We can most likely look forward to compulsory microchipping/registration of our cats.

Letters: There's nothing wrong with renting

Rental housing was the easiest, most economical way to move from one place to another.