Otago Daily Times: Opinion

Next Monday is the Queen's official birthday here: a time to mark her 60 years on the job. On Friday, a gathering near Upper Hutt will mark the 40th anniversary of the birth of the world's first national green party - one measure of the many deep changes in the Queen's Commonwealth.

Natasha's departure from Coronation Street a month ago remains the finest thing shown on television so far this year.

An Otago mother shares her experiences of school bullying and says the responses of schools and school principals are inadequate.

Honouring the Treaty of Waitangi means upholding the law, writes Joseph Dougherty of Dunedin.

NATO's recent summit in Chicago was mostly about how to get Nato troops out of Afghanistan without causing too much embarrassment to the Western governments that sent them, and a little bit about how to ensure that the Taliban do not take over again, once the Western troops leave.