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OPINION: Wellington's waterfront has to evolve or die.

OPINION: What Businessman Johni Rutene and Tariana Turia have not explained is why taxpayers should pay for what NZ First leader Winston Peters has described as a "family reunion".

OPINION: The veto works against the achievement of the UN's goals. Until it is scrapped, the organisation will remain little more than a glorified talking shop.

OPINION: The row over Treaty obligations only adds to the already considerable public disquiet about National's plan to sell down state-owned assets.

OPINION: It must have dawned on primary teachers by now that the Government remains determined to make their schools more publicly accountable.

OPINION: If the advice Treasury gave Michael Cullen in 2005 to cut taxes was an "ideological burp", what does the PM think its latest offering is?

OPINION: It is time for Bob Parker to realise that there's more to being mayor of Christchurch than donning a bright orange jacket.

OPINION: There is a fine line between exuberance and boorishness. It is a distinction sevens fans participating in the revelries should bear in mind.

OPINION: Prime Minister John Key is renowned for his cheery optimism.

OPINION: It would be nice to think the furore over the sale of the 16 Crafar dairy farms to China's Shanghai Pengxin Group has nothing to do with the nationality of the purchaser.

OPINION: New Zealanders living and working in Queensland and Victoria discovered just how grateful Australia was for their efforts after the Victorian bushfires and Queensland floo

OPINION: Justice is supposed to be blind, not blindingly stupid.

OPINION: When the Wellington Phoenix take the field for their A-League match against the Melbourne Heart tomorrow, fans will be hoping for a win.

OPINION: The price of milk has not been far from the headlines in the past year.

OPINION: Kapiti Coast ratepayers should be asking themselves one simple question after council chief executive Pat Dougherty pocketed a $44,000 pay rise.

OPINION: Wellington City Council has shown considerable restraint towards the Occupy Wellington protest. The time has come, however, to remove those who remain.

OPINION: Albert Alapati had the world at his feet but tragically, he will never fulfil his potential after he was caught in a rip and swept out to sea.

OPINION: Toying with the idea of using Wellington Anniversary to finish off that long-overdue renovation? If so, think again.

OPINION: The trial ambulance triage service run in Wellington's Courtenay Place last year tells two stories.

OPINION: The row over water meters in Wellington's Soho Apartments could be a taste of what might come.

OPINION: Politicians ought never be allowed too close to the mainstream media - unless they are being held to account for decisions they have made.

OPINION: Parking enforcement, no matter how it is done, will always create "a degree of ill will", Wellington City Council officer Stavros Michael says.

OPINION: There is nothing to celebrate about the way Ben Hana, known as Blanket Man, chose to spend the last years of his sad and tormented life.

OPINION: Wellington's economic base is under seige and we need to find new and innovative ways to reinvent the city in economic terms.

Judicial independence is a cornerstone of any true democracy.

OPINION: Every nation has a fundamental right to choose who is allowed across its borders and who is allowed to stay.

OPINION: If Wellington residents want CBD shops that they enjoy, they have to patronise the businesses.

OPINION: The lifting of emergency powers in Fiji gives some hope that troubled nation is at last on the path back to democracy.

OPINION: New Labour leader David Shearer could do worse than take note of recent developments in Britain.

OPINION: The crowded Republican race for the White House began in earnest this week.