Short, succinct opinions from New Zealander on subjects of their choice. Here's AUT Business School Senior Lecturer, Department of Marketing Patrick van Esch on why New Zealand needs equality in parental leave.

Oncoming onslaught of online political ads; Substack - an ad-free way for journalists to make money online; a comic confession.

Hamimah Tuyan lost her husband, Zekeriya, in the Christchurch mosque attacks. She joins Jim to discuss her views on Islam in New Zealand and Kiwis' attitudes towards the Muslim faith on the eve of her departure.

Short, succinct opinions from New Zealander on subjects of their choice. Here's writer Colin Hogg

Patrick Emanuel is a surfing pathologist who is a based in Lima, Peru. He discusses life in Lima, how the surf breaks compare to those in NZ, and why Peru has the best seafood in the world.

You might think MPs spend all their time debating legislation. That's not true. They also spend a lot of time talking money.

Commentator Lavina Good says it's going to take some work to settle the warring factions before the New Zealand Warriors club is sold again.

Guardian correspondent Lisa O'Carroll looks at the latest rumblings in the Brexit gift that keeps giving.

Weatherwatch analyst Phillip Duncan says people shouldn't read too much into reports of a rare stratospheric warming over Antarctica causing havoc with New Zealand weather over the coming days.

At least one person is dying every day on our roads on average, and it's costing the country more than $5bn a year. Given that annual figure is more than we spend on transport infrastructure each year, Ben Strang investigates why we aren't doing more.