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Dunedin citizens on honours list

Dunedin recipients of King’s Birthday Honours (from left) New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition...

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Dunedin citizens on honours list

Wellington, July 2: The Governor-General announces that his Majesty the King has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Birthday Honours list, to confer distinctions on the following...

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GP funding package

The promised shake-up of funding for general practice has taken years but is still not pleasing everybody.

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Venezuela: things could change

A man carrying belongings walks through a damaged building, after earthquakes hit La Guaira,...

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Venezuela: things could change

Bad things happen, and some of them are nobody’s fault.

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Playing catch-up and connecting with home as uni takes a break

Grading has been quietly done and the university grind is about to start again. PHOTO: GETTY...

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Playing catch-up and connecting with home as uni takes a break

The first few weeks of uni break have passed by, playing a game of catch-up.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

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The Redcastle homestead, a mile or two to the north of Oamaru, has been acquired by the Christian Brothers as a boarding and day school for the diocese of Otago and Southland. It is understood that...

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Otherwise not fine nor dandy

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Otherwise not fine nor dandy

As the people of the Wairarapa and Wellington continue to clean up after the latest southerly storm, sage words on the frequency of damaging weather in New Zealand come to mind.

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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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The magic of snake lollies needed to corral MPs

One of these snakes has magic powers. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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The magic of snake lollies needed to corral MPs

After years as a political junkie, I am over it.

The reality behind the big GP shake-up

Assessing the health of the general medical practice sector. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

The reality behind the big GP shake-up

A new GP funding plan is not all it is cracked up to be, David McKay writes.

The brutal side of global warming — and some simple solutions

A woman drinks from a bottle of water during a heatwave, after the United Kingdom recorded its...

The brutal side of global warming — and some simple solutions

Jim Salinger has some lessons from the European heatwave.

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Lenglen wins two, then retires

The Wimbledon All-England lawn tennis championships match on the centre court between Suzanne...

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Lenglen wins two, then retires

London, June 29 (Received June 30, at 10.20pm): Mademoisellle Lenglen has retired from all the competitions at Wimbledon. — A and NZ Cable

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Reading the riot Act

Nicole McKee. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone

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Reading the riot Act

Most of us could do with losing some weight, but Act New Zealand wants the country’s government to undergo gastric bypass surgery.

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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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Story of courage in mourning should never be forgotten

Bob Blair. PHOTO: ALEXANDER TURNBULL LIBRARY

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Story of courage in mourning should never be forgotten

Last Wednesday cricketer Bob Blair died on his 94th birthday and we lost a link with the most moving cricket story of all time.

Article removal raises questions

Academic journals are only edited for a reason. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

Article removal raises questions

Kumari Valentine questions how an article came to be removed from an academic journal.

Efficiencies for built heritage in an Otago unitary council

The historic freezer building on the Oamaru foreshore. PHOTO: ODT FILES

Efficiencies for built heritage in an Otago unitary council

Is Heritage NZ really necessary, Ian Butcher asks.

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Pavlova belongs to us all

Anna Pavlova. Photo: Otago Witness, Issue 3769, June 8, 1926, Page 48

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Pavlova belongs to us all

In the eyes of many, Anna Pavlova is the greatest dancer in the world to-day, and at the height of such world-wide fame she comes to Dunedin.

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Earthquake horror

People gather as rescue personnel assist in rescue efforts after earthquakes hit the country, in...

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Earthquake horror

People desperately scrabbling through rubble with their bare hands to find loved ones in the aftermath of an earthquake never gets any easier to watch.

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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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