Linda Robertson

There has been a new winner every year for the five years the ANZ Championship has been running. Will there be a sixth, and what is the chance it will be the Southern Steel? Coach Janine Southby did not dismiss that as a fairy tale when she spoke to netball writer Adrian Seconi.

Chanting students enter Dunedin's Forsyth Barr Stadium for the 2013 Orientation Week Toga Party.

At only 22, racing commentator Tom Wood, working at the Omakau gallops yesterday, says he is the youngest in New Zealand to be in the job and about the third youngest in Australasia.

Zoe Wan did not quite know what to expect when Australian science communicator and performer Chris Krishna-Pillay asked her to hold up a toilet roll during a show at Wall Street Mall on Saturday but she soon found out.

Curious onlookers check the inner workings of Adrian Mann's 5.7m, 1.2-tonne piano as he plays his favourite melodies, including music from Queen and Billy Joel, in the foyer of the Otago Museum yesterday.

Action from the Otago primary and intermediate cross country held at Bishopscourt, Dunedin yesterday.

Photos by Linda Robertson; prints available from otagoimages.co.nz.

Otago Daily Times photographer Linda Robertson presents her best photos of the year.

Thousands of students are pouring into Dunedin and setting up flats in readiness for the new tertiary education year.