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Letters to the Editor: ORC, climate and Trump

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Letters to the Editor: ORC, climate and Trump

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including how bad prose doesn't mean bad policy, what politicians think about climate, and bad news for Trump haters.

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Who won or lost the correct colonisation question

Leonard C Mitchell’s painting reconstructing the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Image: ODT files

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Who won or lost the correct colonisation question

Was the colonisation of New Zealand a good thing or a bad thing?

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Road workers busy in Port

Port Chalmers, viewed from the Robert Falcon Scott monument looking towards Portobello. — Otago...

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Road workers busy in Port

At the monthly meeting of the Port Chalmers Council, the Works Committee reported that the principal work of the past three weeks had been the new concrete channel in George St.

Here is what’s so special about Central

Cycling in Central Otago. PHOTO: LINDY DAVIS

Here is what’s so special about Central

Tenure review transformed Central Otago, Tony Perrett writes.

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Surviving the population crash as the global birthrate plunges

Photo: Supplied/ NZ Human Rights Commission

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Surviving the population crash as the global birthrate plunges

To them that hath shall (more) be given is generally a reliable guide, but it doesn’t work if the beneficiaries are too stupid to take advantage of the gift.

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A glimpse of future retreat

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A glimpse of future retreat

New Zealand is a young country thrust up high, a chain of islands sitting proudly but uncomfortably slap-bang on a tectonic plate boundary and at the junction of warring warm and cold air masses.

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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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Letters to the Editor: Queens Dr, students and hydro sites

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Letters to the Editor: Queens Dr, students and hydro sites

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including Queens Drive closure, students and hydro sites.

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Picking cherries, cooking books: the Public Finance Amendment Bill

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Picking cherries, cooking books: the Public Finance Amendment Bill

Cherry picking is an important matter in the South. In a good season, some 5000 tonnes of fruit will be exported from Central Otago orchards.

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The secret diary of . . . the Judge Aitken hearing

Judge Ema Aitken and a mystery speaker. PHOTOS: ODT FILES

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The secret diary of . . . the Judge Aitken hearing

Thank you to all parties for attending this constitutionally significant hearing which is about to unite the country in its loathing of the professional classes.

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Rain does not stop play

Bowlers in their 80th year and over gather for ‘‘elderly bowlers’ day’’ at Dunedin Bowling Club. ...

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Rain does not stop play

The twelfth anniversary of the Elderly Bowlers Day took place on Saturday on the Dunedin bowling green.

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Unriddling Churchillian flourishes

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Unriddling Churchillian flourishes

How many readers spotted this in the 100 Years Ago column on the facing page?

Within living memory

Within living memory

Members of the successful Queen of Hearts South touch rugby team which were to play three matches in Sydney later in 1986 are (anticlockwise from bottom left):

Show we can trust the fast track

The Santana Bendigo site. PHOTOS: ODT FILES

Show we can trust the fast track

Sir Ian Taylor drops Prime Minister Christopher Luxon a line about the fast-track process.

Time to throw caution to the wind and capture lightning

The Opportunity Party leader Qiulae Wong. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Time to throw caution to the wind and capture lightning

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Strategic independence is not free — but quiet dependence costs more

Regional exercises in the Pacific, like this one in 2022, should be more common. PHOTO: NZDF

Strategic independence is not free — but quiet dependence costs more

As global power dynamics shift and Canada looks to Australia for regional co- operation, New Zealand faces growing pressure to clarify its role in Pacific security and leadership Graye Shattkey...

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Let the panel do its work

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Let the panel do its work

The new year is only six weeks old and there is already little doubt what the big story for the South will be in 2026 — the potential fast-tracking of Santana Minerals proposal for a gold mine in...

Green Island School at 70

Pupils from 1856 to 1874 at the 70th anniversary of Green Island School. Otago Witness, 23.2.1926

Green Island School at 70

An important event in the history of Green Island — the seventieth anniversary of the opening of the school — is being celebrated at present, the functions being spread over three days.

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