Editorial

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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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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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Is a new normal OK for road toll?

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Is a new normal OK for road toll?

A new year means a fresh start for many, but for others — the media being no exception — it means a reheating of the same old same old.

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Holding on to hope

The new year was celebrated with a fireworks display in the Octagon in Dunedin. Photo Peter McIntosh

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Holding on to hope

The countdown to any new year comes with mixed emotions.

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Letters to the Editor: debt, dumpsters and drugs

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Letters to the Editor: debt, dumpsters and drugs

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including getting our debt crisis under control, the ethics of dumpster diving, and the argument for drug reform in NZ.

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The tricky job of electoral reform

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The tricky job of electoral reform

In the last sitting week of the year Parliament passed a grab bag of law reforms, some of which could be consequential in next year’s election.

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Health targets miss bullseye

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Health targets miss bullseye

With election year looming, the government has some way to go to convince voters our creaking public health system has turned a corner.

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A damnable drip-feeding of data

Donald Trump was friendly with Jeffrey  Epstein in the 1990s and early 2000s. Photo:...

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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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A welcome Christmas cracker

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A welcome Christmas cracker

Let credit be given where credit is due.

Christmas and the stories we forget

Each December comes a familiar pageant.

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Finally, some progress to report

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Finally, some progress to report

Southern health facilities have provided a stream of bad news stories for many years due to their inadequacy, disrepair and lack of capacity.

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Court correcting Corrections

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Court correcting Corrections

This time last year we were writing for the umpteenth time about the Department of Corrections thumbing its nose about calls for it to treat all prisoners according to the law.

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Mobility cuts may strand the disabled

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Mobility cuts may strand the disabled

Scrooge would have been proud. It was an announcement, less than 10 days before Christmas, to cut transport subsidies for New Zealand’s least mobile citizens.

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Politics and money

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Politics and money

Politics and money have always been uneasy bedfellows.

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NCEA decision delay

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NCEA decision delay

The delay of final decisions on proposed changes to the national secondary school qualifications may not be enough to allay teachers’ misgivings about them.

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Good news for Surrey St residents

Surrey St issues bubble on. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

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Good news for Surrey St residents

Wherever you live there are always annoyances, as there are in every aspect of our lives.

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Empty feeling after Bondi killings

Mourners at an improvised memorial for those killed at Bondi. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Empty feeling after Bondi killings

The vast, monumental emptiness yesterday at Sydney’s normally densely crowded Bondi Beach spoke volumes.

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Prevention better than cure

A healthy diet can help prevent cancer. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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Prevention better than cure

The information in the State of Cancer report released last week was not all doom and gloom, but it highlights how much work there is yet to do.

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Land of the free, don’t forget

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Land of the free, don’t forget

"Welcome to the United States. If you are here, it’s either because you’ve said nice things about our beloved President Donald Trump or we didn’t manage to find anything nasty or incriminating...

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You had better shop around

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You had better shop around

"Try to get yourself a bargain, son, Don’t be sold on the very first one," Smokey Robinson and The Miracles sang on their breakthrough hit Shop Around.

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