OpinionEditorial: Second generation of Uni debtParents have to watch another generation take on student debts.04 Mar 04:00 PM
EditorialLabour-Green harmony has its limitsEDITORIAL: Labour needs to beat National in September. Can it do so by campaigning with the Greens?25 Feb 04:00 PM
EditorialEditorial: This by-election is too quietAuckland's Mt Albert electorate is having one of the strangest election contests New Zealand has seen.18 Feb 04:00 PM
EditorialEditorial: Sex industry stigma remainsEDITORIAL: Prostitution was made legal in NZ 14 years ago, with hopes it would remove the stigma, this has not been the case.11 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Seeds of Waitangi Day thereIf Waitangi Day was observed as it should be - and no doubt one day will be - it will be a two-day event.04 Feb 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Auckland's beach disgraceAucklanders have been waiting a long time for the day they will no longer see health warnings appear on some of their beaches after heavy rain.21 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Serena roof call a classicMaybe it is time to put more of that appearance money into concrete and steel and a retractable roof.14 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Best of NZ summer lies aheadThe glorious thing about a New Zealand summer is that just as the official holiday fortnight ends, the best has yet to come.07 Jan 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Yes it is a Happy New YearHappy New Year. Those three words never fail to spread good cheer no matter what the state of the world.31 Dec 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Happy Xmas to allFor now, we wish you good reading, fine weather, safe driving and a happy Christmas.17 Dec 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Key leaves Peters back in playA week has never seemed such a long time in politics.10 Dec 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Allied made the right mine callAllied Concrete this week put that aside in favour of a moral position. We should take note, and applaud.26 Nov 04:00 PM
EditorialEditorial: Wall can honour 20 years of tryingIt has been more than 20 years since the first major effort in New Zealand to promote legalised euthanasia.19 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: A bright side to Trump?It is worth considering some of the ways in which this alarming President-elect is not wrong.12 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Rugby on a fine stageSoldier Field, Chicago, where the All Blacks are playing this morning, is a place where much has happened besides rugby.05 Nov 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Nostalgia fills the screenNostalgia is one of the reasons updated versions of so many old movies are returning to our screens these days.22 Oct 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Times are changin' for prizeAlfred Nobel intended that the prizes in his name be awarded for achievements that "have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind".15 Oct 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Thanks to all who stoodCongratulations to all the new mayors, councillors and members of local and community boards elected in cities and districts around the country yesterday.08 Oct 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Law must back teachersThe news that teachers fear legal action for stopping school fights underlines what a hard job school teaching must be.01 Oct 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: All Blacks are up thereSome of our rugby fans are a strange breed. This week, following another decisive victory by the All Blacks, some were calling the game boring.24 Sep 04:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Can elderly save the regions?Sociologist Paul Spoonley argues in it that some regions of declining population and business should accept fate and adopt strategies of "smart decline".17 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionHorror of 9/11 casts its deadly pallCOMMENT: Today's date has haunted the world for a decade and a half.10 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Dads are doing so much betterFatherhoood has not always been as worthy of celebration as it is today.03 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Pride in personal servicesMuch as modern audiences loved Downton Abbey, few would have felt any connection with the culture of service in the grand houses of Edwardian England.27 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Pleasures of self-made booksSelf-published books can be well produced. It is probably worth paying to have them professionally written, edited, designed and printed.20 Aug 05:00 PM
New ZealandEditorial: Sleaze has no place in healthDoctors have the highest place in public trust. Previous generations placed so much trust in their doctor that explanations were not expected.13 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Chiefs turn laddish into cloddishChiefs need to find a way to penalise those who have let down their good name. The main instigators will be known to the All Black selectors.06 Aug 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Houses traded like sharesBut sooner or later prices will burst. Confidence can drop suddenly and unpredictably when nervous or smart money bails. Be ready.30 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Living by strictures best left behindGloriavale, the closed Christian community on the South Island's West Coast holds a strange fascination for many of us.23 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Get rid of abuse at sport for childrenDid you watch your child playing sport yesterday? Was it what you expect on a winter Saturday morning in New Zealand?16 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Housing is still defying answersLabour's loudly heralded housing policy announcement today will be received with more interest than an opposition party normally receives.09 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Rehab, it can really happenWhen young people are sent to prison for a crime as serious as murder, few of us give much thought to what they will do with all that time inside.02 Jul 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: Should earners also get Super?Retirement used to be synonymous with receiving National Superannuation. Not any more.25 Jun 05:00 PM
OpinionEditorial: NZ Rugby sensitive to players' dementiaFew newspaper revelations have had a greater impact in rugby-mad New Zealand than those of Herald sportswriter Dylan Cleaver's in March.18 Jun 05:00 PM