Will Ardern's halo slip?

OPINION: Halo aside, "Jacinda Ardern is ordinary", shrugged the conservative Australian news website The Australian in the wake of the frenzy...

Comment: Why Donald Trump will win a second term

The next big ABs World Cup bolter?

OPINION: 2, 4, 6, 8, it's never too late to be a World Cup bolter. Blues back-rower Tom Robinson should recognise those lyrics because they were...

Acts of sacrifice matter

OPINION: Days after the terror attack in Christchurch, the unity of spirit that characterised our collective reaction seems to be giving way to...

Super Rugby team of the week

OPINION: Six Blues and no Crusaders. That is very unlikely to happen again in Stuff's Super Rugby team of the week, and no doubt the Hurricanes are...

Hosking: Banned players the big losers in rugby 'poaching' politics

Terror and our loss of innocence

OPINION:   It is early autumn now. We have had a strange discombobulating summer marked by climate change – volatile weather, a heatwave,...

Huge cloud over presidency lifted

US President Donald Trump has every reason to crow after the release of a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s “Russia investigation”...

Outstanding success at surf lifesaving championships

By all accounts, last week’s Surf Lifesaving New Zealand National Championships on the Mount Main Beach were a outstanding success, with the...

The truth about us: Facts not fiction

The Prime Minister summed it up perfectly. To paraphrase her words: This evil purveyor of indiscriminate slaughter is not us. We totally reject...

Tauranga February average afternoon temperatures 1913-2019

Temperatures have been recorded in the Tauranga area at several sites during the last 100 years, including the current Tauranga Airport site from...

Tears on my headscarf

OPINION: The sweat was doing that thing where it drops from the middle of your back, past the curve, and straight on to the top of your lower back....

Too soon for Mumbai movie

OPINION: For a few days, terrorism thriller Hotel Mumbai was on screens in New Zealand. It's scheduled to be back there on Thursday (March 28)....

New Zealand's natural capital 'not looking too flash'

The millennial with a hard work mantra

Hawkesby: Need a nap? When sleep becomes elusive

Soper: Slumbering Winston Peters fails to set the record straight

Sideswipe: What a surprise

Positive signs from Fonterra

The winds of change blowing through Fonterra recently have been more of a bluster than a breeze. It has been a difficult time for New Zealand's...

Britain's woes rest on woeful leadership

One thing now unites Britons — a sense of national humiliation, writes  Nick Cohen. hundreds of thousands marching were patriots. Not patriots of...

Scales balancing for women in sport

Bryony Frost. At last, women are winning in British sport, writes Martha Kelner. Pick up any newspaper from the past five years and you will see...

German demobilisation

The Scandanavian Company's sluicing claim at St Bathans. - Otago Witness, 26.3.1919. The military, naval, and aerial terms, as finally adopted,...

Artificial milking benefits

OPINION: My wife and I adopted our first child. During this time we got involved in a number of online adoption groups and did a lot of research on...

Islamophobia a threat to us all

OPINION: Make no mistake, it was not just one man and his gun that killed 50 innocent worshippers in Christchurch, the whole Islamophobia industry...

A window on humanity

OPINION: By total coincidence I found myself in Christchurch on the Saturday after the mosque shootings staring at a beautiful stained-glass...

Please Phil, end the bustastrophe

OPINION: We are now in the ninth month of our new bus system. As "transport nerd" Mike Mellor noted in a recent blog, since the changes, "GWRC [...

Christchurch mosque shooting: This is our city

Trevor Richards: Normality will return but our eyes are now open

Editorial: CGT will tax Ardern's fresh political capital

Hosking: Winston Peters' career-defining cock-up in Turkey

Government's first round of gun law reform a success

David Cormack: Giving thanks

Trump impeachment is dead

OPINION: The impeachment of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, died on Sunday in Washington with the release of the four-page...