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    Some Wanaka residents are speaking out about the increasingly pricey town amid an influx of...

    Wanaka’s wonderful week

    This week I’ve been thinking about festivals again because, as I write, it is five days until the ninth Festival of Colour, which I’ve been involved with now for 10 years, writes Liz Breslin.

    Preparation key to successful meeting with teacher

    Preparation key to successful meeting with teacher

    As the first school term draws to a close, many parents will already have had an invitation to meet the teacher, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

    Never a face so pleasingly graced

    This butterfly bush in Dunedin’s Burlington St magically manages to turn bare 
...

    Never a face so pleasingly graced

    China looms large in today’s world. With 18% of the earth’s human population and a similar share of the global GDP, it has the largest land area of any country except Russia.

    Scorpius rising

    Scorpius rising at Hoopers Inlet, Otago Peninsula. PHOTO: IAN GRIFFIN

    Scorpius rising

    A few weeks ago, I was sitting beside Hoopers Inlet, enjoying the tail end of what had been a rather beautiful auroral display, writes Ian Griffin.

    Peaceful walk at blue lagoon

    Dunedin's own blue lagoon.

    Peaceful walk at blue lagoon

    Half an hour’s drive from Dunedin is our own blue lagoon, Purakaunui Inlet.

    Bewildered by age’s tireless march

    Bewildered by age’s tireless march

    Do not go gentle into that brain fog; rage, rage against the dying of your hippocampus, writes Lisa Scott.

    Keep up the support

    Photo: Getty Images

    Keep up the support

    There’s a school of thought among researchers that holds that parents tend to withdraw their emotional support from their sons much earlier than they do their daughters, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

    Getting ahead on the big clean up

    When flooding exposed the old Fox River landfill on the West Coast, millions of pieces of plastic...

    Getting ahead on the big clean up

    We’ve recently watched floods across the ditch devastate New South Wales communities, with agencies and Government scrambling to assist, writes Scott Willis.

    An important insight

    Guide of Childhood: Sketch for Woman’s Mission 1, by George Hicks. COLLECTION OF THE DUNEDIN...

    An important insight

    A scene from "everyday life" in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery collection provides a missing link, writes Lauren Gutsell.

    Lies and ill will

    Writer Vincent O’Sullivan has lent his pen to a new production, Simple acts of Malice, devised in...

    Lies and ill will

    A new play to debut at the Dunedin Arts Festival is not about telling the truth, but might have truths to tell, writes Tom McKinlay.

    Responding collectively to extinction

    We know of five major extinction events in Earth’s past. Scientists are increasingly worried that...

    Responding collectively to extinction

    The life in our oceans needs us to make some connections, writes Abby Smith.

    Stories behind the fashion

    Mild Red fashion designer Donna Tulloch makes a final adjustment to her piece Shear Determination...

    Stories behind the fashion

    The mannequin is looking demurely off to the side, its attention apparently caught by something else going on in the exhibition at Otago Museum.

    Race day the only show in town

    Race day the only show in town

    Dunedin’s 150-year-old Forbury Park trotting venue will soon be no more. But it was once the most popular place in town. No more so than during the exhilarating, surprising and record-breaking, 1965 Interdominion Championships.

    An enduring imbalance

    There were large protests against the Employment Contracts Act in 1991, up and down the country,...

    An enduring imbalance

    The Employment Contracts Act is 30 years old and the country still hasn’t recovered, even as it prepares for the next major employment upheaval, writes Bruce Munro.

    Rising above the plain

    The track offers farm and forest views once you have gained a little height.PHOTOS: CLARE FRASER

    Rising above the plain

    What’s between Milton and the coast? The McNally Track lets you find out and subtly slips in a sense of wider perspective, too, writes Clare Fraser.

    Dispatches from the fringes

    Dispatches from the fringes

    Someone made a week for me last week. Well, it was more like some LOTS - the organisers, volunteers, actors, directors, costumers... everyone who came together to make Dunedin Fringe Festival, writes Liz Breslin.

    Bags — a weighty topic

    Photo: Getty Images

    Bags — a weighty topic

    A new school year and a new job - the afterschool run one day a week. And always the request to "please carry my bag", writes Ian Munro.

    Equinox best time for auroras

    The aurora australis seen from Otago Peninsula. PHOTO: IAN GRIFFIN

    Equinox best time for auroras

    Every encounter with the southern hemisphere’s autumnal equinox makes my heart beat with excitement, writes Ian Griffin.

    Small town boy

    Playwright and performer Michael Metzger on the treadmill for The Changing Shed. PHOTOS: JORDAN...

    Small town boy

    Michael Metzger’s Dunedin Fringe Festival play examines rural masculinity through the lens of his own story, he tells Tom McKinlay.

    Grasping time and chance

    PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

    Grasping time and chance

    We’re already in March, and the start of autumn. The nights are getting longer, the mornings a little chillier and the leaves on the trees are already beginning to change, writes life coach Jan...
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