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President Trump’s toxic trail
Not quite a year ago, Donald Trump was inaugurated for his second presidency.
Editorial
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Out of sight, not out of mind
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Out of sight, not out of mind
With all due respect to the ongoing crises in Venezuela, Gaza and Ukraine, potentially the world’s most important hotspot right now is Iran.
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Getting real on privacy
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Getting real on privacy
After every large privacy breach in this country, commentators say it must be a wake-up call.
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Ensuring Invercargill was on the map
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Ensuring Invercargill was on the map
Some pretty nasty things have been said about Invercargill over the years, mostly by those who have never been there or who considered a fleeting visit gave them authority to comment.
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Plan on an MCERT
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Plan on an MCERT
If, as the adage has it, a camel is a horse designed by a committee, what are we to make of the Cabinet’s latest creation, MCERT?
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Junk food advertising limits
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Junk food advertising limits
The world will be watching to see how effective the United Kingdom’s new restrictions on advertising junk food to children will be.
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Shocking start to Dunedin’s year
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Shocking start to Dunedin’s year
No matter how many times it happens to people we know, a sudden death takes the wind out of our sails.
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The peacemaker strikes again
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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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Minding the sheep
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Minding the sheep
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
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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
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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
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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
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.