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Tom Cruise’s viral botched tan photos might actually help men

OPINION: Actor might actually have done men across the globe a favour.

Editorial: Sticking plasters aren’t enough for these wounds

OPINION: Our editorial on rebuilding a more disaster-proof country.

Joe Bennett: Is posh food all it's cracked up to be?

There are many good things to eat and drink in this world and they are to be enjoyed.

Letters: Cyclone Gabrielle unifies, but we must help the helpers

OPINION: Letters on mystery balloons, Wayne Brown, escaped prisoners, and Three Waters.

Editorial: NZ Cricket fans waif for a decent delivery

OPINION: Our editorial on a summer of misgivings for supporters.

Fran O’Sullivan: Five ideas to help rebuild after Cyclone Gabrielle

Why not try some innovative ways to fund the recovery from Gabrielle?

John Roughan: We need to be proactive in maintaining infrastructure

John Roughan fears the storms will stop the Government’s retreat from Three Waters

Mary Holm: Share investing the DIY way - can you beat a managed fund?

There's nothing wrong with owning shares directly, but make sure you're diversified.

Mike Munro: Waiting for climate crises is asking for trouble

Govts’ reactive role for many catastrophes doesn’t cut it for weather-based destruction.

Karl Puschmann: Like nothing on Earth

Philomena Cunk is a two-joke comic creation.

Editorial: Huge cyclone costs not easy to count

OPINION: Early estimates of economic costs are usually wrong

Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of February 13 - 19

Rod Emmerson's take on the week.

Boris Sokratov: This is absolute 'Green Standing by James Shaw and his Green Mob'

OPINION: Greens Party is grasping at straws blaming Gabrielle on climate change.

Cyclone Gabrielle: Chris Keall - Three stalled - but doable - initiatives for better phone and broadband service for the regions

Three great initiatives, all stuck in the slow lane.

MAFS groom atrociously insults wife’s looks

One MAFS husband unleashes a stream of offensive comments about his wife’s looks.

Mike Hosking: Hipkins’ truancy announcement has come too late

OPINION: Why was nothing done when he was Minister for Education?

Editorial: Vulnerable communities hang tough

OPINION: Our editorial on the hardest hit by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Sideswipe: Isn’t ciabatta like 80 per cent air?

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