New ZealandLet's hope the mud festival is cleanCOMMENT: NZ is importing mud from South Korea where foot and mouth disease has occurred.01 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Councils must walk climate talkCOMMENT: Is your local council doing enough about mitigating effects of climate change?25 Jul 05:00 PM
KahuTommy Wilson: Salute to an imaginative dadThe voting public gets to decide on the billboard and the promises made on it.24 Jul 12:16 AM
OpinionRachel StewartUgly and brutal: this election could be a killerCOMMENT: Will New Zealanders emotionally survive the campaign, let alone the result?18 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Dad's illness and TrumpExperience of father's gradual decline has parallels with unstable behaviour of Trump.11 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartOne party has guts to tackle waterCOMMENT: Opportunities Party has policy that makes sense.04 Jul 06:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartLet's play 'who will save the baby'COMMENT: If a child was about to drown, would any of our political leaders act?27 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionChristians keep trying to 'save' my husbandCOMMENT: What gives Christians the need to "save" somebody with a limp?20 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: I need my nihilismCOMMENT: How to make sense of a world that no longer makes any sense.20 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionA little bull goes a long way on TwitterOpinion: The best satire is done so cleverly that its targets don't recognise it at all.13 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartDoomsday clock ticking for birdsCOMMENT: Tourist boss is silly to say visitors come for scenery, not wildlife.06 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartStewart: Beaten down by radio ads nauseamCOMMENT: Could you live without advertising? Oh, dear God, how I could.30 May 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Why I'm not positiveRachel Stewart explains why she's not going to be positive just to please chirpy men.23 May 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: How to tarnish tourism glowCOMMENT: Quantity over quality will turn round to bite tourism industry.16 May 05:00 PM
EntertainmentSurvivor NZ's 'insulting' grand prizeNorthland's Hannah Gough is fighting to stay on Survivor NZ, but is it worth it?10 May 06:02 AM
OpinionRachel StewartFighting until cows come homeCOMMENT: Dairy farmers and industry mouthpieces love to say they are environmental angels.09 May 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartStewart: Sour old men love bitter whineComment: Elderly, white males are as pesky, autumnal flies for Rachel Stewart.02 May 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartAre we in the final days of democracy?COMMENT: Democratic values appear to have entered a death spiral, writes Rachel Stewart.25 Apr 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartStewart: Thrill of flight never leavesCOMMENT: The sense of wonder, of rising above it all, never gets old, says Rachel Stewart.18 Apr 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartClarke made us appreciate ourselvesCOMMENT: John Clarke's genius was what made him distinct, writes Rachel Stewart.11 Apr 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Make the polluters payCOMMENT: I've always suspected NZ's scarcity of environmental enforcement was willful.04 Apr 05:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartMidwives - overworked and underpaidCOMMENT: Women taking care of women challenges the status quo, writes Rachel Stewart.28 Mar 04:00 PM
OpinionAmy WigginsAre tiny houses the way of the future?Tiny houses are the way of the future, writes Amy Wiggins.17 Mar 06:00 AM
New ZealandEvicted dirty ship owners avoid prosecutionVessel evicted from Tauranga refused entry to Fiji.08 Mar 09:00 PM
PropertyDear Mr Prime Minister, we expect betterPM will need real political courage to take on banks, but it must be done.07 Mar 05:00 AM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Fake food is our futureCOMMENT: There's something about animal farming and meat-eating that defies rational gravity.21 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Fighting the good fightCOMMENT: Personal battles are waste of energy when tackling climate change requires us all.14 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Let racist oafs be minorityCOMMENT: If risible views heard on plane above Godzone are pakeha norm then help us all.07 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: First love hard to forgetCOMMENT: The US has the best raptors for falconry - eagles, falcons, hawks. I go often. The thought of not going breaks my heart. Yet, here we are.31 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartRachel Stewart: Stage set for worse to comeCOMMENT: Not even a week into Trump's presidency, it's crystal clear that US citizens are now dealing with a fascist regime, writes Rachel Stewart.24 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartUnwanted male attention? Use the blockCOMMENT: To block someone is not censorship. It's just that I don't want to hear you, or more to the point, for you to hear me, writes Rachel Stewart.17 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionRachel StewartPut your money where your mouth isCOMMENT: Reliable as clockwork, and right on cue, DairyNZ stepped up to the microphone and shot themselves in the head.10 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionRosemary McLeodWhich country has the worse problem?The baying of young males on the wind, and the distant, delighted squeals of young girls on the pull, told me the New Year was imminent05 Jan 06:00 AM
OpinionRachel StewartWhy we should all pray for world peaceCOMMENT: Over a summer beer, someone casually asked me what I wanted for 2017. I just as casually said "world peace."03 Jan 04:00 PM
