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Editorial: First aid basics can be a lifesaver

If a medical emergency played out before you, would you know what to do? For most of us, it would be a call to 111 - but what about

Editorial: The fast track to outright inertia

As a society we seem to be getting more and more lazy. Far-fetched as it may seem, it does make me wonder if one day we really could

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COMMENT: Is it too much to ask that both parents take equal responsibility for their children? Or that their workplaces support them equally?

Editorial: Little rises above clamour

While a number of families have - much to our collective shame - struggled to put a roof over their heads, there has been much scrambling

Eva Bradley: Reconnecting with reality

It's hard in today's connected, catalogued world to go off grid and be intrepid. Unless you're prepared to go to some fairly extreme

Editorial: Doping scale is what shocks

It's a mind-blowing level of corruption, even for Russia. A report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency has revealed that

Editorial: NZ is haven from trouble

United States Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsburg recently told the New York Times that if Donald Trump became President she would

Merepeka: Safer than most but not immune

Perhaps living at the bottom of the world has its advantages. Of course we're a long way from anywhere. You just can't get into a

Rosemary McLeod: Now we reap what we sow

Both my grandfathers made it back from the Somme, which is miraculous. Commemorations this past week for that appalling waste of

Eva Bradley: Baking attempt a life lesson

It's well established that weather has a major impact on mood. Which is why everyone should just leave me the *@!* alone right now

Merepeka: Forum for my thoughts only

I can tell when people are disappointed when I say no. They get huffy. I rarely, if at all, have used my weekly opinion piece in

Editorial: Something stinks about Lotto fever

Call it entrapment if you like, but something's not quite right about the Lotto fever. With Powerball's first division expected to

Tommy Wilson: Weaving our stories together

Not a lot impresses me these days. I guess it's the combination of having seen and experienced so much by so many in such a small

Editorial: Embrace Maori language

One of my first jobs at the Rotorua Daily Post 20 years ago was calling our lovely kaumatua Anaru Rangiheuea to ask for his comment

Rosie Dawson-Hewes: We are the solution to this horror

Like many who work in media, I'm a bit of a news junkie. I always read it, always watch it. I follow big stories obsessively. Scott

Editorial: Shock news must unite, not divide, Rotorua

It seems lumbercube management may have been the only ones who saw yesterday's shock news coming. The sudden closure of the mill