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Duncan Garner: We all wanted cheaper housing, so why aren’t we happy?

Falling house prices prove the truth of the saying 'be careful what you wish for'.

Why AI might pose a risk to a fair trial

The law must now reckon with the risks of the self-informing juror in the age of AI.

Jane Clifton: Europeans need a break from too long school holidays

Who could have imagined that holidays were such a potent inequality hand grenade?

Aaron Smale: Scrapping NCEA won’t solve underlying problems faced by Māori students

Abysmal results in education stats are more significant to the economy than the OCR.

Bernard Lagan: Can anything stop the tidal wave of Kiwis heading for Australia?

NZ's winners are in Australia, leaving the country poorer with every departing plane.

Russell Brown: Austerity measures hit Auckland hard

"It’s been a bad time to be designing or building anything but billion-dollar roads."

Duncan Garner: Reflections on a significant week in rugby

This week I saw rugby bond 25 boys for a lifetime but we took their phones off them first.

Charlotte Grimshaw on an encounter with a gang of London youths

A false accusation from a Dickensian urchin gains traction.

Jane Clifton: Art world ethical dilemma now plagues automotive industry

Syndicate of French Tesla owners suing Tesla over Elon Musk's activities.

This Australian milestone is worth celebrating

Generations of refugees have helped shape Australia.

The Regulatory Standards Bill is much maligned - but there are concerns worth noting

David Harvey: "The principles of good lawmaking should include treaty considerations."

Aaron Smale: Why politicians don’t take the Māori vote seriously

By-election raises the question whether Māori would be better served on the general roll.

The fascinating and alarming reasons for AI Grok’s fascist meltdown

Fiddling with the code proves problematic after Elon Musk's AI goes on a tirade.

Duncan Garner: Winston Peters in charge of ‘unwinding’ the foreign buyers ban?

Winston Peters is far too wily to let himself be seen as doing an about-face.

Jane Clifton: When Bali isn’t Instagrammable enough for an influencer

There's a limit to lifestyle lies, as this "influencer" discovered.

Peace activist Maire Leadbeater: ‘Why do some lives matter more than others?’

Horrific toll of first atomic bomb is an important to remember now as then.