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Letters to the Editor: housing, the ORC and Auckland

Rain delays play at the Auckland tennis. PHOTO: NZPA

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Letters to the Editor: housing, the ORC and Auckland

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the current community housing situation, funding the Otago Regional Council, and self help for Aucklanders.

Lamb processors sent off to the slaughter

A sober crowd of shareholders attend a meeting in Mosgiel to consider Alliance’s proposal to sell...

Lamb processors sent off to the slaughter

The meat industry status quo cannot continue, Gerrard Eckhoff writes.

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Exhibit delivered by air

A Defence Department plane takes off from a paddock at Papakaio, North Otago, heading to Dunedin...

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Exhibit delivered by air

One of the Defence Department’s exhibits for the Exhibition arrived in Dunedin on Tuesday at noon in the form of an aeroplane piloted by Captain Findlay.

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Democracy inaction

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Democracy inaction

It is easy to be cynical about the democratic process: jokes range from "no matter who you vote for a politician always wins" to "don’t vote, it only encourages them."

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Central snowfall brings with it the best day of the year

A picture-perfect snow day. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Central snowfall brings with it the best day of the year

The first day of October. Last Wednesday it was. One month into the joys of spring.

Foreign policy transparency lacking

Winston Peters addresses the United Nations. PHOTO: REUTERS

Foreign policy transparency lacking

New Zealanders deserve to know how the country’s foreign policy is made, John Hobbs writes.

New legislation missed chance for fresh start

Fishing for change at Fish & Game. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

New legislation missed chance for fresh start

Robust change is needed at Fish & Game, Ray Grubb writes.

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Coleridge search continues

Lake Coleridge township, housing hydro-electricity workers on the bank of the Rakaia River,...

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Coleridge search continues

Christchurch, October 6: The search for the bodies of the three men killed in the Lake Coleridge tunnel disaster is being kept up unceasingly, and the new drive is expected to be completed tonight.

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Dim energy announcement

Clean energy solutions include windmills, solar panels and electric poles. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Dim energy announcement

When it finally arrived, the government’s big announcement on the energy sector had all the oomph of a low-watt bulb.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Three months later, where are Iran’s fabled nukes?

A technician checks valves at the uranium conversion facility in Isfahan, 450km south of Tehran,...

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Three months later, where are Iran’s fabled nukes?

Three months have passed since Operation Midnight Hammer saw seven American B2 bombers drop 14 "bunker-buster" 14,000kg massive ordnance penetrator bombs on Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities.

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A chance encounter pays rich dividends

CMAT performs on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival earlier this year. PHOTO: REUTERS

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A chance encounter pays rich dividends

I first encountered the singer CMAT at the Wide Awake festival earlier this year.

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Waitati road consumes budget

The main north road from Waitati approaches Dunedin past the peaks of Mt Cargill (top right). —...

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Waitati road consumes budget

The free grants to district councils, as stated in the Estimates, are:

In living memory

In living memory

Aulsebrooks Ltd is pulling out its Christmas cracker factory from Dunedin and transferring it to Auckland.

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Being popular does not make it right when it comes to a vote

Where principles and law-making meet. Photo: ODT files

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Being popular does not make it right when it comes to a vote

Parliament is on holiday now, but that does not mean politics has stopped.

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Don’t know exactly how it works but it does

A local elections ballot box at the University of Otago this week. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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Don’t know exactly how it works but it does

Every local government vote is a stitch in the fabric of our future.

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Two of five tunnellers survive

Gordon Archer (left) and Hugh Daly. — Otago Witness, 13.10.1925    COPIES OF PICTURE...

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Two of five tunnellers survive

Christchurch, October 4: After nearly 40 hours’ feverish work the two men, Hugh Daly and Gordon Archer, who were entombed in the fall of earth in No 2 tunnel at Lake Coleridge on Friday, were...

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