OPINION: Why is it that ageing men buy natty European sports cars when their hair falls out, while ageing women sink into trainer pants and quit using makeup?

Professor Ed Adelson says Canterbury University's School of Music needs to reimagine itself to ensure it remains strong and distinctive into the coming decades.

OPINION: The Greek parliamentary election less than a fortnight ago has revealed only how deeply divided the nation is.

OPINION: I have nothing against rich people. Of the few I've met, some have been nice, some not, some clever, some not, and one or two have even read a book.

Rebuilding Christchurch presents the city council with an opportunity to re-energise its approach to issuing building and subdivision consents, writes Tony Marryatt.

OPINION: The Court of Appeal's decision that a Health Ministry policy is unjustifiably discriminatory towards disabled people is one that has implications far beyond the people who brought the case.

OPINION: I've lived with a few seriously weird flatties, including the guy who smeared faeces on the loo wall. I kid you not.

OPINION: David Shearer's decision to muzzle his rival, David Cunliffe, is deeply worrying.

Peggy Kelly describes the labour of love that went into the petition to Parliament seeking to turn residential red-zoned areas of eastern Christchurch into a park.

OPINION: A single fly is drawing together the web of New Zealand's biosecurity concerns and thereby producing a warning, a success and embarrassment.

OPINION: The worst thing about holidays is the re-entry shock when you come back down to Earth.

MARK PRAIN outlines the priority for the Hillary Institute in coming years, and says that fair play will be a factor.

OPINION: The categorical statement by Lianne Dalziel that she will not be a contender for the mayoralty of Christchurch next year clears the political landscape of a distracting factor.

OPINION: The Crusaders' kicking was aimless, their chase lethargic, their backs failed. Righting these wrongs must be a priority against the Blues.

Have you ever wanted to have sex with a rabbit or any other small woodland type creature, asks BECK ELEVEN.

Two fundamental Canterbury forces are clashing at a time when the province has more important calls on its energy and enterprise.

It's truly laudable the Government is offering free contraception to women on welfare, writes MARTIN VAN BEYNEN.

OPINION: Some young mothers with young children are sleeping in cars, some are living in garages. If there is widespread outrage at this I haven't seen it.

OPINION: The GC is a reflection of a point in the evolution of TV entertainment where shows that capture the drama of people's lives in real time have utterly blurred the line between reality and fantasy.

I am standing up for Richard Pearse's family. I am standing up for my great uncle Richard Pearse, my grandfather Warne Pearse and my great aunts Florrie and Ruth.