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Comment: Free speech won public acceptance for gays and lesbians
OPINION: We must tolerate the ideas of others, even if we think they're bad or hurtful

Steven Joyce: The motel generation deserves better
Opinion: The social housing shortage is a crisis of the Govt's own making.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: talk to teens about drinking
OPINION: We must keep talking to our teenagers. Life does not deliver us a Plan B.

Dr Tony Farrell: Documentary on booze confronting but necessary
OPINION: What is now required is a legislative change to stop the continuing harm.

Sonya Bateson: There's a reason abortion is referred to as healthcare
OPINION: It may sound like an oxymoron but, in my opinion, abortion saves lives.

Comment | Let MPs share controversial views - then let the voters decide
OPINION: Voters deserve to know where individual MPs stand on controversial issues.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: No substitute for independent Children's Commissioner
OPINION: The idea to replace the Children's Commissioner with a board is backwards.

Rob Rattenbury: US is a beautiful but complex nation
The investigation into the attack on the US Capitol is well underway

Opinion | Labour looks soft on gangs, dithering on law and order
OPINION: There's a lot going on for Labour heading into an election year next year.

Comment: Learning to evolve when nestlings take off
OPINION: When you think you have a plan, the people you love most change the game

Sonya Bateson: Same-sex marriage is real, it exists - and it's a right
OPINION: Marriage isn't a solely Christian concept nor is it just between a man and woman.

Luke Kirkness: My failed dreams and what you can learn from them
OPINION: Make the most of your glory days, you don't know how long they'll last.

Comment: Access to vaping needs to be balanced
OPINION: Kiwi teenagers are preferring e-cigarettes over smoked tobacco

Opinion: Just do something - massacres need to stop
OPINION: US, just do something - anything - to stop the massacres.

Opinion: 'Fat girl!' The story of (another) verbal hit-and-run
OPINION: Why is it always a loser in a crappy car?

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Life's too short to let whingers and whiners dump their hatred on you
OPINION: Whingers and whiners should ditch the negativity.

Luke Kirkness: Police need to be respected more and the buck stops with us
Luke Kirkness says police in NZ don't deserve to be spat at, bitten or hit.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: I'm about to lose my job but I'm not sorry to go
OPINION: Change should happen when it's needed most

The Premium Debate: If you're physically able, you should work
OPINION: Premium subscribers have their say on the benefit v employment

Opinion: Why schools should cash in on foreign students
Education minister heading to US and South America to drum up student business.

Michele Hunter: We need to make it inconvenient to commit crime
OPINION: Where is the justice for the victims?

Jo Raphael: Women facing uphill battles on many fronts in 2022
OPINION: Women are in a fight for their lives, liberties, equal pay and healthcare.

Opinion: Simon Henry apology: Women no longer have a designated lane
OPINION: Misogyny, like racism is embedded in our customs and institutions.

Luke Kirkness: This Government is rewarding laziness
OPINION: It's time to get tough and ensure people are actually trying to find work.

Dr Tony Farrell: Reining in alcohol industry will reduce health burden
OPINION: The Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act needs reviewing

Luke Kirkness: I've started vaping - and I'm on the way to getting hooked
OPINION: I've picked up a bad habit that is hard to shake despite not being a smoker.

Ram raids are violent, thuggish and dangerous
OPINION: Grumpy old men and women have been sounding the warning for years.

Fran O'Sullivan: Two views on the way forward for Māori
There's the Simon Bridges approach — and then there's Three Waters.