I have reluctantly concluded that NZ does suffer a rape culture. Men can commit sex crimes and get away with it, writes Rodney Hide.

A 16-year-old girl was picked up off an Auckland street and sexually and physically assaulted for three hours, police say.

The Labour leader apologised for being a man and the lid came off a sizeable can of worms, writes Patricia Greig.

Northland has been rocked by another alleged sexual crime committed by an employee at one of the area's schools.

The Rolf Harris convictions have left people puzzled: how did he get away with it for so long?

The diplomat who left New Zealand after being charged with sexually assaulting a woman will be brought back at Malaysia's expense.

Derryn Hinch wants to be able to turn on his mobile phone and see the names of all sex offenders in the neighbourhood.

Last night an online petition calling for Mr McCully's resignation had gathered over 250 signatures, including someone claiming to be Conservative Party leader Colin Craig.

Both major parties are promising fundamental changes to the way rape cases are prosecuted - and that has some legal experts concerned.

A Hastings man has pleaded guilty to a brutal sexual assault on an 87-year-old woman in her home last year and another sexual attack on the same day.

An English television presenter has described how convicted predator Rolf Harris groped her on live television while she was interviewing him in the mid-1990s.

The Social Development Minister is promising that any NZ women molested by disgraced entertainer Rolf Harris will have their claims fully investigated.

What a complete cock-up on the part of our Foreign Affairs officials over the case of the Malaysian diplomat who has been accused of burglary and sexual assault.

eBay is reviewing the sale of artwork and other items associated with Rolf Harris following his conviction for child sex offences this week.

Over a dozen NZ women have told Maggie Barry they were also indecently assaulted by Rolf Harris - and one is considering an official complaint to police after years of silence.

Rolf Harris has been sentenced to five years and nine months in prison on 12 charges of indecently assaulting four girls.

The Govt's ability to monitor 25 high-risk paedophiles will expire next year unless a law to allow supervision orders to be applied indefinitely is pushed through.

For once, Prime Minister Tony Abbott spoke for all Australians.

Murray McCully says it was "good and proper process" for him to leave the case of a Malaysian diplomat accused of sex crimes to authorities for seven weeks.

Stewart Murray Wilson has been declined parole because he still poses an undue risk to the community, the Parole Board has decided.

The Malaysian Government asked NZ to drop all charges and seal the court record of an official accused of sexual assault, documents released by NZ officials show.

The Harris family was accused of making staged entrances at Southwark Crown Court, as if to present a united front for the benefit of the media.

The Malaysian Government asked New Zealand to drop all charges against a diplomat accused of sexual assault, newly released documents show.

Prime Minister John Key says Government wanted a diplomat accused of sexual assault to face charges in New Zealand.

A diplomat accused of a sex crime was ordered out of New Zealand after invoking full diplomatic immunity.

Investigators say the late BBC entertainer Jimmy Savile abused victims aged from 5 to 75 - and may even have performed sex acts on the dead.

Jurors in the Rolf Harris trial have asked a series of questions of the judge as they continue deliberating in the complex child sex abuse case.