Simon Wilson: Designing a stadium fit for Auckland waterfront

That's rubbish! Reasons your bin hasn't been collected

(Please keep in mind this advice may not apply to all residential bin services.) Nothing can rile people up more than coming home from a long day...

Financial juggles after marriage break-up

COMMENT: I'm currently renting. We share care for our two children equally. After legal expenses and buying necessities (a car) I will have about...

Brian Gaynor: Restaurant Brands latest on foreign buyers' menu

Editorial: Let's turn renters into owners

EDITORIAL The news today that some houses at the high end of the market in Auckland are beginning to sell below their officially estimated capital...

Claire Trevett: Simon Bridges' odds after week from hell

Editorial: We're all Tongans tonight

When Tonga play Australia at rugby league in Auckland tonight, there will be no doubt which are the home team. Tongans living in Auckland and...

If this is corruption NZ-style, we're lucky

COMMENT: One evening in a bar in Hong Kong, where I was covering celebrations of the fifth anniversary of the city's hand back to China, I asked...

Looming World Cup all consuming

COMMENT While the All Blacks have not been at their premium best this season, two tests against the Wallabies have not caused them too much grief....

Lizzie Marvelly: Tramadol trend is a prescription for trouble

COMMENT: Being a parent sounds terrifying. First you're handed a tiny, defenceless infant you must try not to inadvertently break, then they grow...

Steve Braunias: Secret Diary of Jami-Lee Ross

COMMENT: I feel fine now. I mean, sure, I had a mental breakdown and I was in a very dark place and I was the victim, very much the victim, and I...

The TV reboot that's so 'woke' it hurts to watch

COMMENT: There's a change happening right now in film and especially TV in which creators are making a real effort to diversify for the first time...

Hosking: The facts show the anti-car idealogues don't have a clue

COMMENT: I'm always one who loves a few facts over theory, or ideology. What a fascinating set of numbers we have showng the number of cars...

Editorial: Peter Jackson provides a final centenary gift

COMMENT: Film maker Peter Jackson has already done a great deal for his country. His films have projected New Zealand to the world, his studios and...

Comment: Scientific knowledge does not lean 'left' or 'right'

COMMENT: Your Dialogue contributor last Thursday, Alex Davis, claimed New Zealand universities are politically biased communities of left-wing...

Jake Bailey: I've spent a bit of time inside

COMMENT: I've spent a good share of my life in prison so far. Fortunately, as of yet I've stuck close to the people who come and go as they please,...

Comment: Climate demands we all make changes

COMMENT: This is a time for serious humility. That's my feeling about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's newly published Special...

Soper: Bridges' National leadership irreparably damaged

COMMENT: Simon Bridges' leadership of the National Party is irreparably damaged. This is not just about an MP going rogue, it's about buying...

Sideswipe: October 18: Did National become Hell?

Comment: Self-driving vehicles are coming in gradual steps

COMMENT: Autonomous or driverless vehicles (AVs) are receiving plenty of publicity, not all of it positive, but the reality is the technology at...

Islands victim of Sanzaar fiscal bullying

Yet again, the South Pacific Island nations, already cowering and clutching their collective proverbial stomachs in agony, have been left feeling...

Hosking: Jami-Lee Ross a 'duplicitous, dishonest, conniving, scumbag'

COMMENT: So Simon Bridges won yesterday and won it well. I think the audio recording released by Jami-Lee Ross shows that he is a duplicitous,...

Simon Wilson: Stadium an inspired proposal - now we need a champion

COMMENT: How magnificent. And how frustrating too. The proposed new waterfront stadium – and the proposed development it's a part of – looks like...

Sideswipe: October 19: Incognito signage

Comment: Light rail is not the answer for Auckland Airport

COMMENT: The airport, generating 10 per cent of Auckland's traffic, continues to frustrate travellers from both the city and the south despite the...

Comment: Let's be more wary of 'Chinese' donations

COMMENT: In this week of scattershot political theatre, $100,000 from a Chinese businessman hung silently in the background like Chekhov's gun....

Wynne Gray: Less is more in today's world

Simon Wilson: The new stadium proposal needs a champion now

COMMENT: How magnificent. And how frustrating too. The proposed new waterfront stadium – and the proposed development it's a part of – looks like...

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Jami-Lee Ross hasn't got the goods

COMMENT: I have been listening to the audio that Jami-Lee Ross promised the public. It certainly doesn't look like Ross has the goods that he said...

Comment: Bridges flawed but does National have anyone better?

Simon Bridges may seem to have been around for a long time but, in truth, he has been leader of the National party for a matter of only months...

Mark Thomas: How to make Auckland great again

COMMENT: It has been a rough year for Auckland in the international liveable cities' beauty parade. In August, it dropped out of the Economist...

Hosking: A real leader would have suspended Jami-Lee Ross on the spot

COMMENT: The mistake Simon Bridges made yesterday was not being what so many of us want him to be. A leader. He called for and got an inquiry, the...

Hawkesby: Jami-Lee Ross wasn't 'sick' at all, just plotting

COMMENT: Yesterday it looked like a circus, today we could just add some boxing gloves and a ring to that tent, maybe some mud. For a guy you've...

Sideswipe: Ernie Pinches Footbridge mystery solved

Mike Hosking: 'Jihadist' Jami-Lee Ross self-detonates

COMMENT: This is why they have the saying, "you can't write this stuff". Because, you can't write this stuff. You'd buy tickets for a show like...

Barry Soper: Simon Bridges comes up short

Bridges wins battle, but does death by 1000 tapes await?

COMMENT: To National leader Simon Bridges goes the skirmish, but ahead of him lies a potential war - or death by a thousand tapes. Bridges' initial...

Comment: Ross' revenge could prove fatal to Bridges

There is only one word to describe the effect of the press conference held by Jami-Lee Ross to explain his "falling out" with National leader Simon...

Claire Trevett: Singing 'all the burning bridges'

Comment: Simon Bridges must quit to save National

COMMENT: The question right now is how much of what Jami-Lee Ross has said is correct. Simon Bridges says none of what he says is true. But it...

Brian Rudman: Bus ads are not a pretty picture

COMMENT: Just over two years ago, Auckland Transport's top spin doctor sent me the following good news. "Brian I hope you are sitting down. This...

Rachel Stewart: Climate - Don't say I didn't warn you

COMMENT: If you're familiar with my writing, you'll know I've been doomin' and gloomin' it for eight years now. I'm nothing if not consistent when...

The Great Kiwi Bake Off serves up delicious viewing

Hosking: 'Jihadist' Jami-Lee Ross self-detonates

COMMENT: This is why they have the saying, "you can't write this stuff". Because, you can't write this stuff. You'd buy tickets for a show like...

Editorial: National's leader on tricky path to next election

Jami-Lee Ross did the National Party one favour as he resigned yesterday. By making his resignation when he did - while the rest of the National...

Comment | Decade of high debt and loose money comes home to roost

COMMENT: Over the past decade we have learned that a serious banking failure with risky balance sheets can feed into a major international...

COMMENT: Scientific knowledge is not "left" or "right" - Natasha Hamilton-Hart

Business executive Alex Davis claimed in the Herald New Zealand universities are politically biased communities of left-wing academics, stifling...

Editorial: National's leader has got himself into a fine mess

Utterly predictably, the National Party leader's inquest into his leaked travel expenses has turned toxic for his party, with the release of the...

Hosking: Teaching is hard and getting harder. Unions aren't the answer

OPINION The unions will hate it. And given their relationship with the government, it will be interesting to watch over the coming months. But you...

Soper: Bridges' petition ensures Govt will do nothing about petrol taxes

COMMENT: Simon Bridges has ensured that the Government will do nothing about the petrol taxes brought in this year - the annual excise rise of just...

Hawkesby: My money's on Judith Collins to be real winner in National's leak saga

COMMENT: So it's bye bye to Jami-Lee Ross, or it will be by the end of today anyway. The National Party cannot afford to tolerate (a) this circus,...

David Cormack: How petrol tax has become a political football

COMMENT: "Excise increases in recent years have helped maintain the real value of the Land Transport Fund. These latest increases will also achieve...

Cameron Bagrie: It's a momentum shift, not a downturn

COMMENT: The likes of Xero's Small Business Insights data continue to throw doubt on claims the economy is in trouble. That does not mean growth...

Sideswipe: Can't see me, can't tow me

Barry Soper: Jami-Lee Ross has sealed his fate

COMMENT: Politics is a treacherous business, essentially because it's full of egos who think they can do the job better than someone further up the...

Sideswipe: What did Ernie do with it then?

The student union of the University of Manchester in England has just banned clapping. Instead, it will encourage students to use "jazz hands" (...

Hawkesby: Social media's disconnecting kids' lives

COMMENT: Even those of you without school-aged children will notice by the traffic that school's back today. You perhaps won't have the same joyful...

Bridges in troubled waters: 'Nats have one choice today'

COMMENT: When the National Party MPs turn up at caucus today it will be something of an alien landscape for them. At long last, there is a crack in...

Claire Trevett: Bridges also faces day of reckoning