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Eva Bradley: What will you think when you're 80?

There's a certain glamour and prestige to photographing weddings. They are beautiful, big-budget and brimful of the hope and optimism

Rosemary McLeod: Swimming against the tide

The burkini - where was it all my adult life? I could have enjoyed going to the beach, or the swimming baths. I might even have learned

Katie Holland: Standard of proof a worry

Innocent until proven guilty. It's a fundamental tenet of our justice system. But it seems there are varying shades of grey when it

Wyn Drabble: Words fail me - well, almost

Sometimes expressions morph but the results are not always favourable. There is a perfectly good expression which has evolved into

Eva Bradley: Real housewives not so real after all

I'm feeling hard done by. This week during an idle moment between making dinner and folding washing, I found myself on the couch watching

Editorial: Road v Rail: Let's sort it

Unbelievable. On the day that the last log train rumbles out of Northland, two log trucks crash, as if to say "our roads can't take

Opinion: AIMS Games a great event

Over the next few days, thousands of intermediate aged students will start descending on the Western Bay of Plenty for this year's

Nickie Muir: Why can't they be like us?

The French Mayor who decided last week that women who were wearing more than a handkerchief and some dental floss were improper on

Editorial: Police need to revisit policy

Burglaries have become a massive PR headache for police in the past few years. The headache formed after a change in protocol meant

Editorial: Rates to be hot topic in election

Rates are always one of the Rs that get people going before an election. There's rubbish, and roading of course. Comparatively we

Nickie Muir: Secrets from the front row

News of the All Blacks security breach came via my parents in Thailand - from Al Jazeera. It featured somewhere between the image

Editorial: Talk, it's a cheap cure for depression

A few years ago I sat around a table with a suicide education worker, and a group of rugby players and administrators. One of them

Editorial: Tweak needed to ensure safety

Our roads are governed by rules that we have to adhere to. They exist to keep us safe, alive even. Perhaps it is time we drafted

Roger Moroney: When it all goes too smoothly ...

I touched upon that intriguing thing dubbed "Murphy's Law" some time back and should have known then that it would emerge again in

Rosemary McLeod: Cut from the same old cloth

It is the purpose of uniforms to make the wearer look mildly, or hopefully horrendously, unattractive, and to negate individuality

Dylan Thorne: Obesity battle has tobacco as model

You don't have to look too hard to see the consequences of this country's increasingly poor diet. A short trip to a busy mall will

Chipmunks argument highlights disability issues

DISABILITY ISSUES used to be heavily dominated by either toilets or parking. However, as the disability movement gradually takes

Kelly Makiha: Survey hints at backing on dope

When Labour leader Andrew Little told student radio he would hold a referendum on decriminalising cannabis if he became prime minister