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.
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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?
Rachel Stewart: I'm back and I'm not staying quiet
COMMENT: I am rebranding as the only columnist any rational person will ever want.
Rachel Stewart: Environment, Facebook, free speech among big issues of 2018
COMMENT: Rachel Stewart looks back on 2018.
Letters: Library needs more school science text books
Rotorua Daily Post readers have their say.
Rachel Stewart: TERF wars - a derogatory term to shut down debate
COMMENT: All human beings deserve human rights and respect.
Rachel Stewart: Why today's feminists leave me underwhelmed - and males contented
COMMENT: Today's 'feminists' generally leave me underwhelmed.
Rachel Stewart: 'Trump of tropics' latest psycho in club
COMMENT: Rise of Brazil's Bolsonaro next step in far-right's troubling march.
Lizzie Marvelly: Tramadol trend is a prescription for trouble
COMMENT: Tramadol is not a drug that you want to muck around with.
Rachel Stewart: Climate - Don't say I didn't warn you
COMMENT: It needs WWIII to turn this overloaded, burning, sinking global ship around.
Rachel Stewart: Drums of water war echoing in pipeline
COMMENT: Minister's lack of action on vital resource letting council dig in defences.
Paul Little: Our health system shames us all
COMMENT: Hospitals are run down, understaffed and inadequate.
Rachel Stewart: Women must unite against hard-line patriarchy
COMMENT: Kiwi women are eye-wateringly over-represented in domestic violence statistics.
Peter Williams: Serena is calculated, cynical and selfish
COMMENT: A champion is always appreciated more if she or he is a champion person too.
Soper: Clare Curran saga reflects poorly on PM's leadership
COMMENT: Clare Curran's demise eerily similar to that of the Labour MP she replaced.
Rachel Stewart: Fed up with over-sharing
COMMENT: 'Confessional' female writers setting feminism back generations.
Rachel Stewart: Animal cruelty – a storm is coming
COMMENT: If you're shocked now, your hair will soon curl.
Dower: Why Wally Haumaha must quit police
COMMENT: For the sake of front line cops, and for the sake of the force, call it quits.
Heather du Plessis-Allan: Why Wally Haumaha should resign
COMMENT: The case of Wally Haumaha is one that defies all political understanding.
Rachel Stewart: Why kill animals after an 'attack'?
Comment: Animals attack us when we invade their space and we need to realise this.
John Tamihere: Why police boss Wally Haumaha deserves a fair go
Haumaha's comments about Schollum and Shipton were honest reflections of what he thought.
Editorial: Warning should have been heeded over Haumaha affair
EDITORIAL: The appointment of Wally Haumaha has kindled into conflagration.
Rachel Stewart: Signs of a stressed-out dairy industry
COMMENT: If farmers don't find a new way forward soon, they'll feel more alone than ever.