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Prohibition - it should be banned

COMMENT: The deeper I delve into the issue, however, the more I am struck by just how frightening the consequences of prohibition are.

Opinion: Nothing beats live sport

THE way the last couple of days have gone for the New Zealand Olympic team, sports fans without Sky may not be all that worried right

Opinion: Commerce versus culture

When 'alcohol meets ancestry' was the talk of social media last fortnight and it all stemmed from a little micro brewery in Auckland

Editorial: Charity theft unacceptable

I think one of the lowest things a person could do is steal from a charity. Under normal circumstances, I'd say nobody would dare

Rosemary McLeod: Ambition and stilletos don't mix

How flattering of Hillary Clinton to borrow fashion tips from Helen Clark while they both audition for top jobs. It was Prime Minister

Eva Bradley: Mum sings the birthday blues

Celebrating is something that transcends cultures, demographics and history. No matter when you were born, in what country and even

Editorial: Explaining court's way of thinking

Online publication of more decisions from our courts has come at a good time, given a perplexing sentence in Auckland this week. The

Opinion: Great for home owners, not so for others

IT'S amazing what has happened to Rotorua house values in the past year. Though many experts predicted provincial centres such as

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

Once upon a time there was a man ...

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