Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch 'Tis the night before Christmas and noisy as heck, the sun is still shining and we're out on the deck. Stockings are hung by the aircon with care - a sweaty Saint Nick will need the cool air. Children... Read More

Winston Watusi Music Plus A lot of writers are deadline junkies. Perhaps it is just the pleasure of procrastination, but it requires the impending rush of a deadline to unleash their creative energy, to get them writing. That's... Read More

Tamati Coffey Labour List MP The past year has hit Aotearoa hard and New Zealanders have thankfully risen to the challenge, because it could have been so much worse. Thanks to the mandate you gave us, this Labour government has... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Christmas 1976 brought Sideline Sid a present that he still delights in today, when he received the "DB Sporting Records of New Zealand" from under the family Christmas... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder In the bleak mid-winter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone, Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter, Long ago. These words, from... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch I'm not sure where the fear of heights came from. Since I was a child I've been scrambling around rocks and tramping in the mountains, hopping across swing bridges without thinking twice. We even... Read More

Angie Warren-Clark Labour MP Last week in Pāpāmoa we opened Te Ākau, the new Oranga Tamariki building on the new Ngā Parirau site. This beautiful building represents a change in the way Oranga Tamariki operate, moving forward... Read More

Simon Bridges National Party MP simonbridges.co.nz I want to touch on the government's handling of Covid-19, since its re-emergence in the community in August in the form of the Delta variant. While the government duly received... Read More

Pick a number - any number - and see how it applies to your weekend just gone by. Numbers, when they are grouped together or put side by side usually paint a picture, and my numbers for the first few days of December lined up better than they have for... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondent & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid believes that "Career on the line for Joseph Parker" is a perpetual headline that New Zealand sporting media pull out each time the Kiwi boxer enters... Read More

Weather Eye with John Maunder The following data sets and comments are from the climate4you.com website developed by Professor Ole Humlum who is a Danish Professor Emeritus of Physical Geography at the University of Oslo, and Adjunct... Read More

Daniel Hutchinson From The Hutch Christmas presents can be placed into three main categories - heartfelt, practical and minimal. Heartfelt gifts are obviously the most time consuming, requiring hours of browsing and a good knowledge... Read More