Marriage and the state

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COMMENT: Today marks a historic occasion in the affairs of this great country.

The UK, Tasmania and New Zealand could be islands of survival.

It is easy to make assumptions about people who appear before our courts.

Trump is deliberately misrepresenting the facts - or he's too busy golfing to verify them.

Humanity's evolved tribal instincts could threaten our survival as a species.

Saudi women can drive now, but the country is now being run by an over-confident dictator.

Research challenges long-held theories and beliefs about the ancient world.

Beehive syndrome occurs when elected members appear to leave their spines at the door.

COMMENT: The more I drank the more I could handle it. Time to give it a break.

The night sky is full of interesting things to look at this week.

A timely reminder that all things are relative, including punctuality.

' I would have preferred a phone call apologising for the waste of my whole day!'

Cold, damp homes that are expensive to heat can make their occupants sick.

St John's Hill School's was presented with Green Gold Enviroschool certificate

Readers write in: Gay genetics; Peace in our time; organic food or not; farewell Fred

When taking photos in public places enters the grey zone.

COMMENT: Trump has offered his congratulations to Jacinda and Justin ...

Rooster Grizzles following in the tentacle tracks of soccer's great animal oracles

It is unfair to those who don't wish to drink fluoridated water to be forced to buy water

Looking across at the United States, we see a huge leap back to days of Nazism.

For legions of refugees on the run from slaughter, it's raining every day.

The collective wisdom of 2.6m voting NZers is statistically superior to that of 120 MPs.

Husband-and-wife teams running authoritarian regimes seem to have a high casualty rate.

'Everything our volunteers do makes a difference to people with heart disease.'

Once the use of gas is eliminated, what will heat homes and cook meals?

The little shop that's perfected making it an 'experience' to go there

A country's greatness can be measured by the way it provides for its most vulnerable.

In the 1950s and '60s, the Young Farmers movement boasted some 12,000 members nationwide.