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Jane Clifton signs off after 30 years of Listener columns

People often tut about the cacophony of Parliament but it’s our lifeblood they’re debating

Did we learn nothing? The new push that endangers NZ workers again

As govt seeks to roll back workplace safety laws, Pike River lessons are being ignored.

Charlotte Grimshaw: Words become difficult in a moment of extreme anxiety

When a van hits a stone wall with a sickening impact, life changes fast.

Jonathan Kronstadt: Gen Z don’t have the luxury of the idleness and mindlessness that marked my own 20s

Today, the kids are alright.

Steve Braunias on the sentencing of the mother responsible for the ‘suitcase murders’

Mercy for Hakyung Lee was bartered for at sentencing.

Duncan Garner: I’ve seen enough, ban e-scooters before someone you know dies

There are rules for all sorts of things, so why are we so lax about flying death traps?

Jane Clifton: How a dog’s Dublin to Auckland trip ended up costing an eye-watering five figure sum

Nothing can prepare NZers returning home from overseas with pets for the odyssey in store.

Aaron Smale: My Christmas Wish

We need a new way of responding to people with trauma.

Once powerful and influential, the reputations of three prominent Australians are now in tatters

Across the 1980s & 90s, three entitled men had an outsized influence over Australia.

Pay men women’s rates? Now there’s an idea

Pay equity discussions involve raising women’s wages to men’s, but there’s an alternative.

David Harvey: In the digital age, ignorance of the law is even less of an excuse for breaking it

The Free Access to Law movement has spurred greater online access to case and statue law.

Aaron Smale: Nicola Willis shows “utter arrogance” by describing Treaty concepts as “nebulous”

Govt's contempt for the Treaty might come back to bite it on the international stage.

Russell Brown: The way Waiheke Islands works these days has a whiff of feudalism

Today’s Waiheke Island is a very different to the place it was in the 1980s.

Duncan Garner: Should Kiwis take Labour back? The issues that need to be sorted first

Are the Labour Party and Chris Hipkins doing enough to run the country again?

Jane Clifton: Ryanair Ireland accused of being beastly to the elderly

At least Ryanair has never tried to pass itself off as comfortable.

Jonathan Kronstadt: One in five US tenants spend 100% of income on rent

As in New Zealand, lack of affordable housing is a crisis in the US.