No place for nimbyism in Covid fight
Imagine spending a fortnight in Christchurch, stuck in a hotel room with an unfamiliar newspaper and your senses dulled by endless, window-framed views of a wintry Canterbury sky. You might have it...
Editorial
A ride too far, a promise unfulfilled
A ride too far, a promise unfulfilled
David Clark’s resignation as Health Minister was unfortunate, but it was also inevitable.
Resolution needed for cull plan
Resolution needed for cull plan
The perennially controversial plan to manage Himalayan tahr on conservation land claimed its first trophies well before the start of the new culling season. Co-operation and trust were stalked for...
Tackling inequality proves taxing
Tackling inequality proves taxing
There is nothing wrong with wanting all New Zealanders to live with dignity, free from poverty and enriched by opportunity. It is part of what makes us New Zealanders — we aspire to have a country...
A bus boom?
A bus boom?
Make it cheaper, and they will come.
The world is coming here
The world is coming here
People who do not fully appreciate the beauty or the value or the significance of sport probably do not know what all the fuss is about.
Majority rules in council divide
Majority rules in council divide
Otago regional councillors’ push to dump their chairwoman has been decried as more than simply a bad look for a council that was supposed to rehabilitate its image after two lackluster terms.
NZ First candidate could be decisive
NZ First candidate could be decisive
The worst-kept secret in politics was finally confirmed this week, with the announcement that Mark Patterson will stand for New Zealand First in Taieri this election.
Snow brings opportunity
Snow brings opportunity
The peaks glisten white, somewhere beneath a blanket of clinging June cloud. It is as it has always been for this time of year but for Queenstown and Wanaka, so much of this ski season will be...
‘Fairness’ in co-payment plan
‘Fairness’ in co-payment plan
The Government must seriously consider the extent to which New Zealanders will continue to fund the still-imperfect quarantine and managed isolation measures that provide the bulwark against the...
Golden return
Golden return
As sporting comebacks go, it is perhaps not quite on the scale of Tiger Woods winning his first golf major in 11 years, or Michael Jordan returning to grace the courts of basketball after an 18...
Focus needed to beat predictions
Focus needed to beat predictions
They say the Otago region and especially the Queenstown Lakes District will be hardest hit in the Covid-19 recession and the slowest to recover — but we say focused and determined people can still...
Review deserves considered response
Review deserves considered response
It is often said the human body is the most complex machine in existence, but the system designed to keep that body healthy must come a close second.
Bidding farewell to Bidrose
Bidding farewell to Bidrose
On the day she was named as Dunedin City Council chief executive in December 2013, Sue Bidrose told the Otago Daily Times she had three principal aims for her tenure in the role.
Lawmakers grapple with sharks, lasers
Lawmakers grapple with sharks, lasers
Politicians are often likened to sharks, but on Wednesday the actual animals had their time in the spotlight in Parliament as Invercargill MP Sarah Dowie’s member’s Bill to permit shark cage diving...
It’s an about-face on the comics, Charlie Brown
It’s an about-face on the comics, Charlie Brown
We asked for feedback on changes to our Diversions page in the Otago Daily Times, and we got it.
Not time to do nothing
Not time to do nothing
Often, in a list of recommendations put forward by local body officers to their elected leaders, there is a "do nothing" or "status quo" option.
Defence must be tightened
Defence must be tightened
It is absolutely staggering our border controls should be so lax, so inexplicably porous as to allow two people, subsequently diagnosed with Covid-19, to leave what was supposed to be a 14-day...
Forbury's future
Forbury's future
You could do worse than call on the words of acclaimed Otago poet Hone Tuwhare if — when? — there is a need to farewell one of Dunedin’s oldest sporting facilities, the Forbury Park race track....
Counting the cost of inaction
Counting the cost of inaction
Do you feel that chill in the air? It is the chill of another winter of ever-increasing electricity bills.