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Right calls

Last week, I came across a great idea for introducing the decision-making process. A teacher friend has been taking his Year 9 class through the process using our Government’s response to the...

Just horsing around

Childhood memories are a patchwork; random snatches of scenes mostly hidden, but suddenly surfacing when jolted to consciousness by the smell of sunscreen, or the feeling of flannelette sheet...

An idea worth bottling

Those bottles in the recycling bin could be the currency that supports a network of community hubs, writes Gina Dempster.

Take it from me, this is a racist country

Hundreds of people gathered in Dunedin’s Octagon yesterday to support the ‘‘Black lives matter’’...

Take it from me, this is a racist country

At the end of a fortnight during which the cause of black lives went around the globe, Hadley Tamati writes about his experience of Aotearoa.

Grandparents’ love constant

One of the side effects of our lockdown, here and across the world, has been the enforced separation of grandparents and grandchildren in an effort to keep grandparents safe, writes Ian Munro.

5 questions with: Kris Faafoi

Kris Faafoi is Minister of Broadcasting, Communications and Digital Media; Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Minister of Government Digital Services; and, Associate Minister of Housing.

Rediscovering the town belt

It’s quite fun to imagine a Dunedin so small that the town belt ringed the outer urban edge. Nowadays, the town belt’s almost "outer inner city", writes Clare Fraser.

Crescent moon meets Venus and Matariki

As we head towards winter solstice on June 21, sunrise is steadily getting later each day, writes Ian Griffin in Skywatch

Barking up a very tall tree

Finally there’s something like an answer to one of the great questions of contemporary music, writes Tom McKinlay.

On the offensive: Otago Uni's fight against Covid-19

Professor Miguel Quinones-Mateu says the PC3 high-containment lab at the University of Otago is...

On the offensive: Otago Uni's fight against Covid-19

Two researchers and a high-containment lab stood in the breach as the Covid-19 pandemic reached our shores. Bruce Munro talks to Otago professors James Ussher and Miguel Quinones-Mateu about their life-saving work.

University research focused on pandemic

Research throughout the University of Otago, and across its five national campuses, has refocused in response to the global pandemic. Bruce Munro has collated a small sampler of what else is going on.

Deserting for the goldfields

Arthur Street School pupils Vanana Eteuati, left, and Jasper Shoemaker help then Dunedin deputy...

Deserting for the goldfields

The story of the Dunedin detachment is an important part of the 70th Regiment’s history, writes Paul Gorman.

A window on the world

While in lockdown for weeks, Lisa Scott seized the opportunity for a good old clear-out.

Restoring our energy

Restoring our energy

We’ll need to carefully manage our energy levels as we move back into our new normal, writes life coach Jan Aitken.

Tidiness can start young

Level 2 did mean that in our household we had to clean up our act, so to speak, writes parenting columnist Ian Munro.

Fig tree thriving in South Dunedin

This young Moreton Bay fig tree is growing surprisingly well behind the demolished St James...

Fig tree thriving in South Dunedin

What interesting plants did you discover during your lockdown walks?

Jupiter’s great storm not to be missed

Jupiter’s great storm not to be missed

For the past few weeks, I have had enormous fun observing Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, all of which are high in the sky in the run-up to dawn. While getting out of bed at 4am can be a bit tiring, any...