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Editorial: Sportsmanship nearly as good as winning

In a week when we have lost one of our model sportsmen and marked the retirement of another, it is thrilling to see a good spirit catching on.

Editorial: Labour coffers of concern to all donors

Ever since the party's former president, Mike Williams, stepped down there have been murmurs that his successors did not have the same persuasive touch with business donors.

Editorial: Lomu's legacy humility as well as heroics

It is possible that Jonah Lomu was better known worldwide than any New Zealander at any time, even Sir Edmund Hillary.

Editorial: Why Len Brown's Paris trip is out of order

COMMENT: Announcement that Len Brown is going to the world climate change conference in Paris will anger many.

Terrorist acts demand joint response

Paris is a special place, a city the world associates with romance, culture, good times and the fine things of life.

Editorial: Don't waste chance to choose flag

Next week everyone of voting age will receive an official envelope inviting us to select a new flag. The sight of a voting form can be sobering.

Editorial: Why John Key should say sorry

How hard would it be for the Prime Minister to apologise?

Editorial: Tertiary fraud waste of time and money

Investigations into six tertiary institutions, from Southland to the Bay of Plenty, have identified more than $25 million in misappropriation. One of them, we reported this week, has been stripped of its registration.

Editorial: Media suicide restrictions do little good

News media in other free countries would be amazed at the restrictions on reporting deaths in New Zealand by suicide.

Editorial: All Blacks in every way an inspiration

When the All Blacks won the World Cup in New Zealand four years ago, it was hard to imagine any victory could be sweeter.

Editorial: All-black uniform puts its rivals in the shade

We have always wondered whether the very words All Blacks put terror into the hearts of other rugby nations. Now we know.

Editorial: Clashes of culture call for tolerance

Migrants' choice to wear burqas may be alien to West but respect gives them space to adjust to new ways in their own time.

Editorial: Dirty Politics passes public interest test

Both claim to be journalists, Cameron Slater and Nicky Hage have found their work subject to the scrutiny of the High Court.

Editorial: Deportees have harmed Kiwi interests

Editorial: While it is in our interests to provide all reasonable assistance to enable them to establish a new life here, we should not sympathise with their predicament too much.

Editorial: Lessons from Iraq must be etched in stone

Sometimes historical mistakes are so monumental it is pointless to wonder what might have been.

Editorial: Councils must stick to their own concerns

The Auckland Council intends to hold a debate and a vote on whether to oppose exploratory oil drilling in an area of seabed off the west coast.