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Rob Rattenbury: Who runs the world? Volunteers

The value of volunteer labour alone equates to $3.5 billion annually and climbing.

Jane Trask: Undies, undies, undies, TOGS!

'What really is wrong with a little female butt cheek?'

Letters: Hemo Gorge sculpture design and manufacture 'very exciting'

Readers have their say.

Letters: Mixed support after Rotorua council claims

Recent Lakes District Council revelations have sparked a mixed response.

Samantha Motion: Hotels and a tale of two towns

Comment: Does Tauranga need to catch up to Rotorua?

Kiri Gillespie: Don't tell me not to eat meat

All of this environmental white noise and societal finger-wagging is tiresome.

Dawn Picken: Long road towards equality in sports

COMMENT: We still have a ways to go to eliminate racism and sexism in sports.

Buddy Mikaere: What's in a name?

COMMENT: On te reo, selling tomato sauce and wordplay taken too far.

Dawn Picken: Lessons from a cyclone

COMMENT: For most of us, 2020 will be neither smashing success nor abject failure.

Letters: Rates debate and PM pride

Readers share their views.

Carmen Hall: Cigarette addiction has cost me tens of thousands of dollars

COMMENT: But giving up smoking is not as easy.

Katee Shanks: I'll never look at Whakaari the same way again

It's during the downtime when thoughts of December 9 come to the fore.

Zizi Sparks: We'll never be the same again after White Island

One month on the effects of the eruption are still seen in the small community.

Buddy Mikaere: Let's hail the delicacy that is the New Zealand mussel

COMMENT: They deserve an international reputation.

Zizi Sparks: Help Surf Life Saving NZ so it can help you

COMMENT: Help lifeguards stay afloat. You never know when they might do the same for you.

Letters: People getting fat and expensive rates

Opinion: Readers have their say.