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Letters: Name suppression too easy in New Zealand

OPINION: Letters on MP perks, entrenchment, crime, and road speeds.

Jamie Mackay: How will Fieldays receive the PM and Labour this year?

OPINION: Fieldays will be a litmus test for the Government.

Sideswipe: Drifter Chase set

A daily column looking at humorous, satirical and simply strange news.

Editorial: Three Waters reform hits a storm

OPINION: Our editorial on entrenchment provisions in new Bill.

Our democratic rights trickle away

OPINION: Government is clearly opposed to allowing any public debate on Three Waters

Susan St John: No excuses for hungry children

OPINION: Government has levers - why doesn't it pull them?

Simon Wilson: The Auckland mayor, the port and the first 50 days

After 50 days as mayor, Wayne Brown has fired his first big shot - at the port.

Dr Essie Rodgers: 'As I’ve risen higher ... I’ve come to experience more sexism'

The conservation biologist is a lecturer at the University of Canterbury.

Editorial: Is Labour sinking deeper into an election quagmire?

The Government's biggest problem is that its challenges are entrenched.

Letters: Law and order, Rebuilding Better, Three Waters, Steven Joyce, and bank profits

OPINION: Letters on inflation, emissions, football, Simon Henry, and Pooh Bear.

The calculations already influencing next year’s election

Opinion: The 2023 election is already shaping up as an MMP classic.

Editorial: Voices are rightfully raised in anger over heinous crime

OPINION: Our editorial on the nightmare attack on an Auckland shop worker.

Paula Bennett: Let’s talk safety and hope before age 16 vote

Talk of whether 16-year-olds can vote detracts from mental health, housing, crime issues.

Rod Emmerson’s cartoons: Week of November 21 - 27

Rod Emmerson's take on the week.

Letters: Benefits a safety net, Getting tough on crime, Luxon a lame duck?

OPINION: Military camp, Supreme Court over-reach, and getting tough.

Shaneel Lal: Anti-queer hatred and violence at an all-time high

Hate speech ban protecting religious beliefs should extend to queers, women and disabled.