Latest from RDP - Opinion

Leah Tebbutt: Racist ideas ensured my strongest connection to my whakapapa is a man no longer here

OPINION: My Poppa is my identity to te ao Māori

Carmen Hall: I've been a 'Karen' and have been a rude customer

OPINION: I did not scream and shout or make a scene but I ruined their day

Zoe Hunter: Heckling of te reo speaker one of most disgusting displays I've seen

Opinion: If we, as a city, give any space to racism, it reflects on all of us.

Opinion: Abusing service industry staff is not on

Let's not come out the other side of Covid meaner in attitude and human spirit.

Merepeka Raukawa-Tait: Māori demand the same level of healthcare as Pākehā

If health is 'needs-based', why haven't Māori health needs been addressed yet?

What was I thinking? Credit card debt a weight on the shoulders

COMMENT: There comes a point when you realise there is no quick fix to debt.

Luke Kirkness: What I learnt from covering Axle's disappearance

OPINION: The people of Tolaga Bay and East Cape have shown us how we all ought to live.

Rob Rattenbury: A reckoning is coming over the history of New Zealand

COMMENT: Many will feel ashamed about what they learn, writes Rob Rattenbury.

Reformed crime boss Billy Macfarlane is proving that his Pūwhakamua programme can rehabilitate hardened criminals

Opinion: With a 95 per cent success rate, Pūwhakamua should be considered for other areas.

Dawn Picken: Inequity hurts everyone - it's time to fix the whare

Opinion: We are still living in the house colonialism built and it's time to fix it.

Samantha Motion: Changes to school names are remaking history

Opinion: Name changes can be met with grumbles of history erased.

Dawn Picken: Advice for a 17-year-old in a new world

Opinion: For a teenager, postponement looks permanent. But this pause is not forever.

Opinion: Pandemic panic gives way to relief back home in NZ

OPINION: Being stuck in the UK during the pandemic has been hard on Emme McKay.

Samantha Motion: 10 really good things from 2020

Opinion: Okay, a lot of bad stuff has happened. But let's take a little break from that.

Why the East Coast is secretly NZ's most interesting election race

OPINION: History may be about to repeat itself.

Kristin Macfarlane: 'I was alive but I wasn't living'

Comment: I couldn't even recognise myself anymore but had no idea how to fix that.