Articles by Francesca Rudkin
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: Parents, you're up
Friday, 26 September 2025, 6:10amYesterday, PPTA members —secondary school teachers— voted to make addressing online extremism an official policy, and are...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: Good news for Auckland Council
Thursday, 25 September 2025, 6:10amIt was a big day at Auckland Council yesterday, and I think a good day. The Policy and Planning Committee met for most...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: Trump's Autism comments are unhelpful
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, 6:21amI didn’t really want to touch on this yesterday. I really hoped the story about President Trump coming out and declaring...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: My take on digital drivers licenses
Tuesday, 23 September 2025, 6:09amOn its own, you wonder what’s the point of moving in this direction when we have perfectly good drivers licences in our back...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: The Government's providing Band-Aid solutions to healthcare
Monday, 22 September 2025, 6:13amYesterday Health Minister Simeon Brown announced $100 million has been allocated for hospital maintenance and refurbishment....
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: We have control of our notifications
Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 6:05amThere has been a clever marketing campaign from 2degrees this week. The telco has released the results of a study it commissioned...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: Let's respect our teachers
Tuesday, 22 April 2025, 6:12amAccording to an article in the NZ Herald this morning, fewer people want to be teachers. Teacher education is still a...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: McDonald's read the room wrong trying to put a restaurant in Wānaka
Thursday, 13 February 2025, 6:52amThere’s a Dominos and a Subway, but there will be no McDonald’s in Wānaka - at least at the currently proposed site. Yesterday,...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: Kainga Ora's crack down on rental debt is fair
Wednesday, 12 February 2025, 6:16amKainga Ora is taking a step in the right direction. They have announced a tougher approach to rental debt, but they’re doing...
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Opinion
Francesca Rudkin: There's nothing wrong with taking time to fill up the tank
Saturday, 21 January 2023, 11:04amUntil Thursday, I would have described 2023, all 19 days of it, as been all about extreme weather, Harry and Meghan’s attempt...
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Audio
Francesca Rudkin: Over-commercialised Mother's Day puts a price on parenting
Sunday, 12 May 2019, 10:31amI don’t know why, but for some reason this year all the Mother’s Day advertising has really annoyed me. And that’s polite...
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Francesca Rudkin: It's time we acknowledge our own stereotypes
Sunday, 28 April 2019, 1:05pmInteresting the way the brain works to interpret the world for us, categorising our world to help us make sense of it, and,...
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Francesca Rudkin: 'Snowflake' Gen Z deserves more respect
Sunday, 21 April 2019, 10:19amApparently if you have a child born into Generation Z – that is a kid born between 1995 and 2010 - you should be worried...
