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Boards try each other’s patience

The oldest of the Dunedin Hospital buildings: the administrative building, which was part of the...

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Boards try each other’s patience

The Secretary of the South Otago Hospital Board wrote to the Otago Hospital Board stating that in future his board would take no responsibility for any patient admitted to Dunedin Hospital from its...

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Downing St kitchen gets too hot

Prime Minister Keir Starmer announces his resignation as UK Prime Minister and Leader of the...

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Downing St kitchen gets too hot

When, not if, was always going to be the case with the resignation of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, which finally came in an emotional statement on Monday morning UK time.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

Flood decisions must leave no-one behind

Sandbagging in South Dunedin during a 2021 flood alert (from left) Larissa McStay, Ingrid Leary...

Flood decisions must leave no-one behind

Everyone needs to work together to ensure South Dunedin’s future, Ingrid Leary writes.

The benefits of having one unitary council in Otago

Councils: the fewer the better. PHOTO: ODT FILES

The benefits of having one unitary council in Otago

One council is the best way forward for Otago, Hilary Calvert writes.

An illegal, ill-thought-out war that has achieved very little

United States Vice-president JD Vance (right) looks on next to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared...

An illegal, ill-thought-out war that has achieved very little

Epic Fury was an epic failure, Joss Miller writes.

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Northern Māori win derby

North v South Maori rugby match on June 23, 1926, won by North (left) 30 points to 17. Photo:...

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Northern Māori win derby

Palmerston N, June 23: From start to finish the Maori match on the Show Grounds to-day afforded thrills aplenty to 3000 spectators.

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Thinking about tomorrow

Christopher Luxon speaks during the National Party Annual Conference. Photo by Hagen Hopkins...

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Thinking about tomorrow

If anyone had any doubts that National is worried about potentially losing votes to New Zealand First in this year’s election, National’s first big campaign pledge should have dispelled that.

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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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Am I an outsider when it comes to the football World Cup?

New Zealand football fans celebrating. Absent: Jim Sullivan. PHOTO: IMAGN IMAGES

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Am I an outsider when it comes to the football World Cup?

It is time I gave soccer a fair go.

South Dunedin: do nothing not an option

‘‘The flat’’ of Dunedin — where people want to thrive and live well. PHOTO:ODT FILES

South Dunedin: do nothing not an option

Resolving flooding issues in South Dunedin is a health priority, Prof Alex Macmillan and Sarah Harrison write.

Climate challenge is up to us all: are we up to it?

Indian commuters wait at a bus stop equipped with water mist to provide relief from the June heat...

Climate challenge is up to us all: are we up to it?

A unified approach is needed for the climate crisis, John Drummond writes.

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Rest-house acquired

Chalmers Memorial Women’s Rest Home, at Owaka. Photo: Otago Witness, Issue 3775, July 20, 1926,...

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Rest-house acquired

Under the will of the late Mr Wm. Chalmers, farmer, of Owaka Valley, the trustee (Mr John Wilkinson, Dunedin) was instructed to purchase a site on which to erect a rest-house...

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Culture shock

Health Minister Simeon Brown. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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Culture shock

Health Minister Simeon Brown’s decision not to reappoint two senior members of the Medical Council because of the organisation’s supposed agenda seems designed to create a furore.

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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: rates, developers and trillionaires

Elon Musk, not quite exclusive company. Photo: Getty Images

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Letters to the Editor: rates, developers and trillionaires

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including rates rises in Waitaki, development hell in Queenstown Lakes, and the dubious uniqueness of Elon Musk.

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Assassination as state policy making ugly comeback

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer: an unwitting target. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Assassination as state policy making ugly comeback

Britain’s soon-to-be-ex prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is so harmless and ineffectual that it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to kill him, but somebody in Russia apparently did.

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Pilgrims for peace

A huge gathering of women who marched from all parts of Britain to a demonstration in Hyde Park,...

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Pilgrims for peace

London, June 20: Mostly dressed in blue tabards, crusaders’ cloaks and sandals, and bearing banners inscribed “Law, not war,’’ thousands of women of all ages and classes forming...

Letters to the Editor: fairness, vulgarity and monkeys

Home of the unelected appointees. Photo: Getty Images

Letters to the Editor: fairness, vulgarity and monkeys

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including abolishing the "Fairness Doctrine", how standards have dropped, and "cheese-eating surrender monkeys".

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Tread softly with South Dunedin

The 2015 flooding in South Dunedin. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Tread softly with South Dunedin

Home is where the heart is, we’re told.

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