New ZealandHousing role split part of reshufflePrime Minister John Key has split housing issues across three ministers as National speeds up its shift toward developing social housing by private providers and reducing reliance on state....06 Oct 09:00 PM
OpinionBob Jones: Poseurs take us all for suckersIn the 1950s a Wellington student, later to become an accounting profession stalwart, paid his way through university via newspaper advertisements, writes Bob Jones.06 Oct 04:30 PM
OpinionMatt Heath: Play fights a golden part of childhoodMatt Heath writes: Why do my sons spend most of their time pretending to kill people? Are they just tiger cubs learning to look after themselves or have I raised psychopaths?06 Oct 01:00 AM
New ZealandMore Kiwis seek help for gamblingThe number of people seeking help for gambling problems has hit an all-time high but that is being hailed as a sign that those in need are better accessing services.05 Oct 04:00 PM
LifestyleAntibiotics 'link to child obesity'Children who are given antibiotics in the first two years of their lives are at greater risk of becoming obese in early childhood.29 Sep 08:30 PM
EmploymentWhere are the highly paid women?One of the main trends coming through from this year's pay survey is the lack of women in the list of top-paid chief executives. So where are they?29 Sep 04:00 PM
New ZealandThe great school zone shiftThousands of students are travelling long distances across Auckland to avoid their local schools - and there's concern about the flow-on effects.28 Sep 04:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: Stepping out on the road to virtueDeborah Hill Cone writes: Are you ready? It's September 29 and ta-dah! Today is the day! I've decided I'm going to be a better person.28 Sep 04:00 PM
OpinionPeter Lyons: Tax flaws creating economic apartheidOn Monday I made several thousand dollars on paper. The share prices of electricity companies surged following the election.24 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionFran O'SullivanFran O'Sullivan: Five issues for business to ponderFive things for business to take on board while John Key relishes his victory and forms his next Government.21 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionDita De Boni: Family violence, the absent issueThe country has had six years of being run like a very large company, and tomorrow is the referendum on whether most people feel that's the right way to go about building prosperity, or doomed to stunt us as a nation.18 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionPeter Calder: An open letter to our leadersDear John and David. Please forgive the first-name familiarity. I'm older than you are so it doesn't feel terribly out of order.16 Sep 05:00 PM
New ZealandCharity comes full circle with Japha awardA Colombian couple have started a social enterprise with disadvantaged New Zealanders as a way to thank this country for two Kiwi missionaries who devoted their lives to Colombia.15 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionMatt Heath: Sneaky little vice proves costly and humiliatingMatt Heath writes: Soon parents will get in as much trouble for putting sugar in their coffee as I did for a tasty little cigarette.14 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionDeborah Hill ConeDeborah Hill Cone: The depressed person's guide to politicsDeborah Hilll Cone writes: I'm neither right-wing nor left-wing: I just believe in rigour. Fair dooz? But this election I'm depressed and unimpressed.14 Sep 05:00 PM
New ZealandWhen harmless fun turns deadlyPranks can be fun and cause some great laughs at the time - but they can also go horribly wrong and end in serious or harmul consequences.13 Sep 05:00 PM
EntertainmentVampire better fit for ClementGrammy winner Jemaine Clement says some of his earliest New Zealand TV roles left him "ashamed" after "running down" his Maori culture.13 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionDavid Hill: Shock and dismay only response to shifty kidsHe was about 13, coming towards me on the downtown footpath. I could see he intended to say something, so I prepared to tell him the time, or where the nearest public loo was.11 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionCatriona MacLennan: Little progress on genuine equality for womenSeptember 19 will mark the 121st anniversary of women's suffrage in New Zealand. This country is proud it was the first to give women the vote.08 Sep 05:00 PM
WorldChristian group targets gay playerNFL player Michael Sam told reporters that he hoped in future he would be seen "as Michael Sam the football player, instead of as Michael Sam the gay football player".07 Sep 05:00 PM
LifestyleUnder-qualified for marriageYoung people without educational qualifications are increasingly being left on the shelf by potential partners, New Zealand researchers say.05 Sep 05:00 PM
New ZealandAction on child poverty wanted - but...A new poll on child poverty has found most Kiwis want more done to fix the problem - but not if it meant paying higher taxes.04 Sep 09:40 PM
OpinionGeoff Noller: People should decide drug futurePerhaps because of the impending election, public discussion of our cannabis laws has been gaining momentum.03 Sep 05:00 PM
New ZealandSykes brings years of battling social issues to election campaignWith her Auckland ties, Annette Sykes says she could have easily stood in the Tamaki Makarau electorate.03 Sep 05:00 PM
New ZealandNick Smith pilloried at housing forumHousing Minister Nick Smith was shouted down when he claimed at a forum on Auckland's housing crisis that foreign buyers weren't impacting on prices.02 Sep 09:12 PM
New ZealandOfficer found guilty of racial abuseA Queenstown policewoman accused of racially abusing a taxi driver in the resort last year has been found guilty.02 Sep 05:41 AM
OpinionPeter Lyons: I've learned my lesson, life's just not fairTeacher Peter Lyons says he's finally learned a valuable lesson - life isn't fair, so he explains why he's decided to vote the right way this election.01 Sep 09:30 PM
OpinionEwen McQueen: Cinderella effect can't be ignoredOverseas studies support Kiwi research on role of casual relationships in child abuse, writes Ewen McQueen.01 Sep 09:30 PM
New ZealandCop denies racial abuseA police officer denies allegations she racially abused a taxi driver in Queenstown last year while affected by a cocktail of prescription drugs and alcohol.01 Sep 05:00 PM
OpinionJohn Hawkes: Williams a remarkable man in any languageDr Harold Williams has long been featured by Guinness World Records as the world's greatest linguist. He spoke 58 languages.31 Aug 09:30 PM
New ZealandBuilders on urgent hunt for apprenticesNew Zealand's expanding building industry has signed up its 9000th apprentice - but says it is running out of young people to fill the demand for more.31 Aug 05:00 PM
