Opinion

FOR SALE: Sixteen farming units scattered throughout the North Island and formerly operated by business entities involved with Alan, Beth and Frank Crafar have been placed on the market for sale.

China's keen, why aren't we?

The Chinese are interested in buying our farms, but MARTIN VAN BEYNEN wonders why we aren't.

At least no-one's there to see

BECKELEVEN - The Press

BECK ELEVEN reveals her lastest Home- Alone Habit (HAH!), which can taste pretty good.

Yes to biofuels, but only the right ones

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OPINION: Biofuels can cut New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions, aid energy security, and make it cleaner and greener, writes JAN WRIGHT.

Is booze heading the way of the cigarette?

By TAHU POTIKI - The Press

OPINION: TAHU POTIKI used to enjoy having a cigarette after tea or over a beer. It sounds blasphemous nowadays, but it wasn't so 10 years ago.

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Intensive style of parenting exhausting

Courage at last to irrefutably confess affair with dead Beatle

Editorial: Board games

New light shed on origins of Maori

Illiterate propagandist can't hide the truth - rates are going up

Editorial: Missed opportunity

Not all residents oppose wind farms

The 'why' of superannuation more important than the 'what'

Editorial: Remarkable result

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Blogs

Dour Spain will be too strong

So the final. Mouth watering on paper but likely to be pretty dull in reality.

The murder conviction of an Auckland man for fatally shooting an undercover police officer with a high-powered air rifle has renewed calls for tougher controls over who can gain legal access to these weapons.

Columnists

Courage at last to confess

ROSEMARY MCLEOD confesses to her passionate affair with John Lennon.

Don't hide the truth - rates are going up

JOE BENNETT sifts through the corporate jargon in his latest annual rates invoice from the Council.

The 'why' of superannuation important

Hide seeks to define council role

Is booze heading the way of the cigarette?

TAHU POTIKI used to enjoy having a cigarette after tea or over a beer. It sounds blasphemous nowadays, but it wasn't so 10 years ago.

Perspective

Intensive style of parenting exhausting

"Helicopter parenting" is more time-consuming and emotionally demanding than other modes of parenting, writes MARGARET K. NELSON.

New light shed on origins of Maori

It seems the first European settlers were right about where Maori came from, writes MATTHEW WRIGHT.

Not all residents oppose wind farms

Honesty is by far not the best policy

Unlocking the puzzle

Polar scientists are united on sea level rise, but are still debating how much and when, reports ROB FENWICK .

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Editorials

Management test for hospital

Understaffing at a hospital is a matter for concern, particularly if it is a chronic problem.

Board games

By raising questions about city councillors who are augmenting their council pay with fees from directorships on city corporate entities, the mayoral aspirant Jim Anderton was undoubtedly seeking to exploit the politics of envy to embarrass his political opponents.