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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.

Charlotte Grimshaw: Our national AI strategy doesn’t address the concerns of creators

To my chagrin, works (including mine) are being copyrighted by AI companies.

Law & Society: Shadows of secrecy still fall across our justice system

A growing patchwork of restrictions quietly draws shutters across windows of open justice.

Andrew Hastie was frontrunner to lead Australia’s Liberal Party, so why has he headed to the back benches?

Did he merely throw a dummy-spit or is there a deeper intent behind his resignation?

Russell Brown: Is it time for councils to fund music venues the way they do sports grounds?

Imagine First XV rugby players with nowhere to play when school ends.

Duncan Garner: Dame Noeline Taurua shambles is netball’s disgrace

Netball NZ had a Ferrari of a coach but then drove it into the ditch.

Charlotte Grimshaw: When all is ruined, what is the perfect song to mark the finale?

Which song is the perfect expression of loss?

NZ kids are driving their teachers to the brink

Screaming, boisterous children are the new norm & teachers have grave fears for our future

Life in Trump’s US: Far too late we’ve realised just how underrated normal was

Soldiers patrolling the streets in some US cities is slowly becoming the new norm.

Duncan Garner: I’ve bought a house – and moved in with an older woman (and my son)

Families come in all sorts of configurations; this is ours and we're doing this our way.