Opinion

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Letters to the Editor: Queens Dr, Maduro, grizzlers

Sections of Dunedin’s Queens Dr will be closed to through traffic for three months while a...

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Letters to the Editor: Queens Dr, Maduro, grizzlers

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including plans for Queens Dr, the US arrest of Nicolas Maduro, and are we grizzlers?

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Have a good laugh and make the silliness last

Laughter will be the coping mechanism of choice for 2026. Maybe. GETTY IMAGES

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Have a good laugh and make the silliness last

Embrace the silliness of the season.

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Record tonnage at port

Complete figures compiled by the secretary of the Otago Harbour Board disclose the fact that shipping berthed at Dunedin and Port Chalmers on January 5 constituted a record for the port.

When emeritus profs are no longer wanted

Emeritus professor is an honorary title for retired professors that allows continued university...

When emeritus profs are no longer wanted

Emeritus professors are neither all-wise nor all-knowing — nor secure in their honorary role, Emeritus Prof Gareth Jones explains.

New Bills must avoid RMA complexity

Resource management reform has some desperate lessons to learn, Bernard Jennings writes.

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Letters to the Editor: Remembering Radich, praise for hospital staff

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Letters to the Editor: Remembering Radich, praise for hospital staff

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers include a tribute to former Dunedin mayor Jules Radich and praise for Dunedin Hospital staff.

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The peacemaker strikes again

US President Donald Trump’s self-proclaimed role as the great peacemaker continued apace late on Saturday night NZT with his unprecedented decision to invade Venezuela and abduct its ruler.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Local loyalty needs to be part of sport but will it survive?

Southlanders and current Volts and Otago Volts cricket player, Jacob Duffy, left, and his brother...

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Local loyalty needs to be part of sport but will it survive?

If you’ve been relaxing by watching a bit of the knock-about cricket known as the Super Smash you’ll have noticed that the Otago Volts and the Otago Sparks are now called simply the Volts and the...

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A year on from shocking allegations of sheep mistreatment in some shearing sheds, the government announcement of an animal welfare education programme is not enough to allay animal rights advocates’ concerns.

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Eton is a mess

Wading home through flooding after a shopping trip in Eton, west of London. Otago Witness, 2.3.1926

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Eton is a mess

London, January 4: After a rise of nine inches during the night the Thames to-day is still rising.

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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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Peace on Earth? Democracy reigns everywhere?

War, like in Ukraine, is challenging democracy. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Peace on Earth? Democracy reigns everywhere?

Democracy is in retreat or at least on the defensive almost everywhere, while wars are getting bigger and more frequent. The trend lines are frighteningly bad.

Is the Bendigo mine a disaster in the making for the region?

Sign of the times at Bendigo. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

Is the Bendigo mine a disaster in the making for the region?

Some things are best left in the ground, Terry Thomas writes.

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Sarcophagus of value

After 3500 years underground, the coffin and royal mask of King Tutankhamun (then written as...

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Sarcophagus of value

Cairo, January 3: Eight men were required to carry the golden coffin and royal mask of Tutankhamen, which was brought here from Luxor, and is now in the Egyptian Antiquities Museum in Cairo.

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Patient portal privacy

A jilted lover has been jailed for posting nude photos of an ex-girlfriend online along with her...

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Patient portal privacy

It is easy to understand why we want to have control over who has access to our health information.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Shaun Yeo's best of 2025.

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Letters to the Editor: birdsongs and balderdash

A Town Belt resident contemplates changing times. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Letters to the Editor: birdsongs and balderdash

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including plans to close the Town Belt to vehicle traffic, and to suggest that protests against genocide are antisemitic.

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