Rachel Stewart: Nope, I'm not taking a guilt trip in my V8
COMMENT: Gripe about my dream car and I'll rip the Velcro off your Tevas.
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Rachel Stewart: Fate of Fonterra - don't say you weren't warned
COMMENT: Years have been spent ignoring fact Fonterra was heading toward the rocks.
Comment | Alcohol baby death - what we need to learn
If all we can do is blame, then nothing much will change, ex-Woman's Refuge boss says.
Rachel Stewart: Monty Python or Shakespeare - tragic theatre of the Greens
COMMENT: State of the climate begs the question - what good are politicians anymore?
Rachel Stewart: Get disconnected - you'll find real world again
COMMENT: Time's precious, there are things to see before the lights go out.
Opinion: Sharing the journey with Matatā fan head residents
We have walked alongside residents in this saga from the very beginning.
Rachel Stewart: Dinosaurs keep hawking past as Godzone's future
COMMENT: A clear vision of agriculture in NZ will not be forthcoming from usual suspects.
Comment: Crown Research Institutes are dragging down our universities
Comment: Something like $750 million goes to CRIs, money universities would cherish.
Comment: Why Shane Jones' Billion Tree scheme will fail
Comment: China takes 75% of our logs, you could say we have all our logs in one basket.
Comment: Baby uplift saga raises pertinent questions
COMMENT: Change must start at the top in NZ's horrific saga of uplifting newborn babies.
Rachel Stewart: Everyone has a right to tell their truth
COMMENT: It's my absolute right to express an honestly held opinion, even if it offends.
Opinion: We need to build up and better support our youth
Teachers, counsellors, coaches, leaders, family and friends all have a part to play.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Māori can be trusted to look after their own
What we saw playing out in Hawke's Bay shows little has changed
The mental strength of Sam Cane
Don't underestimate the mental strength it took for Sam Cane to get back to his best.
Rachel Stewart: Why Judith Collins deserves a chance to be PM
COMMENT: JuCo is a deeply maligned politician.
Jane Trask: Why I quit teaching after 15 years
'Each morning I would sit in my car, while I breathed deeply, scared to start my day'.
Rachel Stewart: Hounds of left are woke and I'm running scared
COMMENT: Govt cronies hate dissent and are eyeing speech laws.
Rachel Stewart: Forget Mars - clean our mess up first
COMMENT: I don't want to go to Mars. I want to get Earth fixed.
Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too
COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.
Comment | Israel Folau gives Christians a bad name
Holier-than-thou people are hard to budge, they're not the "contaminated ones"
Rachel Stewart: Dignified death of a feisty farm cat
COMMENT: This isn't really a column about my dead cat, though it might appear that way.
Rachel Stewart: Outlook grim despite the allure of denial
COMMENT: Species extinction and extreme weather are only going to get worse.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Kindness is not a sign of weakness
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: No one should have been surprised by our Prime Minister last week.
Rachel Stewart: Owning firearms a privilege not a right
COMMENT: Whatever Govt decides, I am fully prepared to relinquish my semi-automatics.
Samantha Olley: The search for solace after Christchurch attack
COMMENT: Two of New Zealand's darkest days, in the same city, just eight years apart.
Rachel Stewart: Can we separate the art from the artist?
COMMENT: I don't believe you can rewrite history. It's already made.
Hosking: Greenwashing cycle lanes doesn't make them any busier
COMMENT: Cycleways are peddled by zealots who are driven by ideology.
Critics' hate speech ensures Jordan Peterson stays popular
COMMENT: Peterson is bringing the degradation of public discourse into sharp relief.
Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: The racists I look out for are the covert ones
Merepeka Ruakawa-Tait: The racists I look out for are the covert ones.
'Our love was turned into a circus': Woman's tirade against Marvelly, partner
COMMENT: This years pride feels like a bandaid trying to staunch the bleeding..
Opera In The Pā Review: Standing ovation as setting strikes right note
Review of Opera in the Pā held at the Arts Village.
Rachel Stewart: Fry me a river, climate denialists
COMMENT: There's no ignoring what's happening with the weather all over the world.
Comment | Make all kids wear same uniform and stop fleecing parents
COMMENT: Why can't schools sell their emblems to parents to add to generic uniforms?