Latest from RDP - Opinion

Jane Trask: Why I still drive a big SUV despite rising fuel prices

COMMENT: Back in the good old days, I could drive from Hamilton to Rotorua on just $6.

Carmen Hall: Housing homeless in motels a stuff-up

COMMENT: Government has spent millions to put homeless in motels but where are the houses?

Rachel Stewart: Farm leaders in dance over freshwater plan

COMMENT: Finally long-delayed "action plan for freshwater" discussion document has arrived

Comment: When cooking a barbecue makes you the neighbour from hell

How do you know if someone's a vegan? Don't worry, they'll tell you.

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.

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?

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"