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The secret diary of... 2025
I was enjoying a boozy lunch the other day with a couple of similarly wizened journos who were likewise in their pomp last century.
Opinion
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You need to help the aged, ’cause one day you’ll be older too
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You need to help the aged, ’cause one day you’ll be older too
"Help the aged, don’t just put them in a home," Britpop band Pulp sang in one of their more unusual singles, Help The Aged.
In living memory
In living memory
The Glen, near Carisbrook, was hard hit by flooding after a deluge in late December 1985.
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Adding up stray Xmas pounds and pennies
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Adding up stray Xmas pounds and pennies
It is easy to overlook a few stray dollars amid the seasonal splurge on Christmas gifts and Boxing Day sales.
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A damnable drip-feeding of data
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A damnable drip-feeding of data
Like a ghastly dance of the seven veils, the United States Department of Justice has been slowly, painfully releasing the contents of its files on Jeffrey Epstein.
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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: marine reserves, cycling and the Hyde Hotel
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Letters to the Editor: marine reserves, cycling and the Hyde Hotel
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including expanding Otago's marine reserves, closing Maori Rd to all but cyclists, and the historic Hyde Hotel.
Photos of the year: December 27
Photos of the year: December 27
Photos by Reuters
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Tourists fill buses, trams ...
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Tourists fill buses, trams ...
The city tram and bus services, recently so greatly enlarged and extended, have been taxed to the utmost during the past three days to meet the excessively heavy demands
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A welcome Christmas cracker
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A welcome Christmas cracker
Let credit be given where credit is due.
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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: Too many MPs?, cultural bonds, hydro spills
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Letters to the Editor: Too many MPs?, cultural bonds, hydro spills
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including size of Parliament, cultural bonds and hydro spills.
Live long and prosper: learn economics from ‘Star Trek’
Live long and prosper: learn economics from ‘Star Trek’
Economic choices are logical in the 23rd century, John Hawkins and Tesfaye Gebremedhin write.
Confronting anti-Semitism, Islamophobia — and the fear of pluralism
Confronting anti-Semitism, Islamophobia — and the fear of pluralism
Confronting religious hate also requires confronting its justification, Graham Redding writes.
Trump’s dubious pursuit of Maduro
Trump’s dubious pursuit of Maduro
US president Donald Trump has militarised drug law enforcement, Richard Byrne writes.
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Kiwis reach farthest north
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Kiwis reach farthest north
Although the little ship has not yet reached England, news of what is now to be called the "British Arctic Expedition, 1925," was received from one member of the expedition at present in London,...
Christmas and the stories we forget
Christmas and the stories we forget
Each December comes a familiar pageant.
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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: mail, frogs and mobility
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Letters to the Editor: mail, frogs and mobility
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including paying for an obsolete mail service, how felines gobble up frogs, and reconsidering the Total Mobility service.
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A Xmas confessional about suits and the living wage
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A Xmas confessional about suits and the living wage
When I told him I had a confession to make, he asked me how long it was since my last one.