OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: 16 important things I learned this yearHere are 16 important things I learned this year. Actually they are not all important or even new, but I'm a slow learner, writes Deborah Hill Cone.15 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Belief in ubuntu drove Mandela - and my mumI feel as though I am saying goodbye to Nelson Mandela not just for me, but for my mother, Cherry Hill, who died last year, writes Deborah Hill Cone.08 Dec 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Money can't buy you happiness - or a real lifeI don't know exactly when it happened. But somewhere along the line I seem to have stopped wanting to be rich. This could be a problem.03 Nov 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Get real, young house hunters, you're not specialDeborah Hill Cone's experience has left her even less on board with the national handwringing over heteronormative young couples and their high lifestyle expectations.27 Oct 08:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Searching for light amid dark night of the soulThe word itself is wrong. Depression. So bland - a wimp of a word, William Styron called it.20 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: We have a natural desire to win, and that's okayPeople with high social dominance fill the news and for the rest of us that can be disquieting as our cortex registers we are not included in this clique, writes Deborah Hill Cone.06 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Invest in teachers and children will followI'm a bit in love with Finland, or at least its education system, writes Deborah Hill Cone.25 Aug 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Claude's autistic and I love himThere's a saying in autism circles that a worried mother does better research than the FBI.11 Aug 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Uber-mother expectations: How depressingI really hope Kate Middleton doesn't suffer from post-natal depression, writes Deborah Hill Cone.28 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Govt's event-veto powers in SkyCity deal bizarreThe Govt did a backroom deal with a private casino operator and is now demanding the right to tell the private operator what events it can run there, writes Deborah Hill Cone.21 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: It's best to avoid labelling middle class snobsDevaluing the outsider is probably the most common cult-like behaviour in everyday society, but it's not so easy to identify one's own crazy faults, writes Deborah Hill Cone.14 Jul 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Helping the less fortunate begins as a childI go and help my 5-year-old son with his storywriting at school a couple of mornings a week which means sitting in on mat time.30 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: A little self-loathing goes the wrong wayI was too scared to open my laptop much of last week because of the vitriol hissing out. Deborah Hill Cone explains her comments about female journalists.23 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Better to blend in than be tempting targetI've been reading my kids a book called Maude by Lauren Child, but I think it might make a cautionary tale for journalists.16 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Sweat and swot - it's the only way to learnHere is something I have learned this week: systematic variance is the deviation of the group means from the grand mean and an F test is a ratio of systemic variance to error variance.09 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: 'Pull your socks up' won't change anythingThere has certainly been a lot of noise following the Government's announcement it will provide breakfast for children at school.02 Jun 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Childhood no time for loading up on angstIt's weird, but before I had kids I thought it was excellent to subvert young minds by indoctrinating them on political issues, writes Deborah Hill Cone. Now I'm not so sure.26 May 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Behaving badly may be sign you need helpBehaving badly towards those who are vulnerable might be a sign you are in the most need of help, writes Deborah Hilll Cone.19 May 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Rewiring the brain not that easyMany left-wing thinkers believe we have no "agency" or ability to make conscious choices, writes Deborah Hill Cone. Until we can work this one out we are not going to make much progress with rewiring criminals.12 May 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill Cone: With Facebook friends like that ...There was a screaming meme (boom boom) doing the rounds on the internet last week.05 May 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Sisters, it's not OK to box in blokesMen said they felt boxed in by the pressure to be strong, and not just from other men, writes Deborah Hill Cone.28 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Hating smokers doesn't help anyoneWe should question the intentions of any group that insists on disdain towards other people as a membership requirement, writes Deborah Hill Cone.21 Apr 05:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Helping Dad adjust to his new lifeNaming clothes is one of the many new things you learn about when you first put your parent in an old folks' home, writes Deborah Hill Cone.24 Mar 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill Cone: Wise up and step away from the property pornTS Eliot once said, "Humankind cannot bear very much reality". But I'm not sure that he read a real estate advertising section, says Deborah Hill Cone.10 Mar 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: It's not dumb to want a better lifeOh-kayyyy. So Mike Williams, a former Labour Party president, calls parents who try to get their kids into higher decile schools "dumb", writes Deborah Hill Cone.03 Mar 08:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Just writing this down is making me feel more cheerfulI had a bit of a bung week. And when things feel a bit bung, you just can't seem to care about anything but yourself and your own silly bung first world problems.17 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Right school may not have the right stuffSo taxpayers have generously decided to bail out Wanganui Collegiate - what, no H? - to the tune of $3 million a year and $4 million for upgrading its buildings.10 Feb 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Home ownership a real religion in New ZealandDeborah Hill Cone is fed up with New Zealand's oppressive attitude to home ownership.27 Jan 08:40 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Seeing the other side of the two New ZealandsI am writing this lying in bed and staring out at the Hokianga Harbour in the Far North.20 Jan 04:30 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Centre of media storm can be cruelI was once "the most hated woman in New Zealand". In April 2000, writes Deborah Hill Cone. I chose to name the policeman who shot a young young man called Stephen Wallace in Waitara.16 Dec 04:30 PM
