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One person’s music is another’s noise
When you’re wrapped up in the emotional swirl surrounding your favourite music, it’s easy to forget not everyone else may be as keen on it as you.
Editorial
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Holidays Act simplification overdue
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Holidays Act simplification overdue
On any list of legislation desperately needing overhauling, the Resource Management Act will always figure prominently.
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Flying the flag for feathered friends
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Flying the flag for feathered friends
So much awful stuff fills the airwaves wherever you look these days that any glint of light relief or shimmer of something other than death and destruction is guaranteed to capture the public’s...
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Albany St flip-flop unedifying
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Albany St flip-flop unedifying
The only consensus around the contentious Albany St Connection project is that the Dunedin City Council decision-making around it has been a mess.
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Arboreal vigilantism unwelcome
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Arboreal vigilantism unwelcome
The word vigilante conjures up all sorts of images of rebellion and non-conformity, but seldom is it a term applicable to the genteel pastime of gardening.
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Missing feelgood factor
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Missing feelgood factor
If the government hoped for the feelgood factor distraction from the Black Ferns heading for the Women’s Rugby World Cup final, it will be disappointed.
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Start your engines
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Start your engines
If the originally announced timeline for the new Dunedin hospital had been followed, right now the outpatient building should have already been receiving patients for several months.
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Turbulent priests and Palestine
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Turbulent priests and Palestine
As the holder of an honours degree in English literature, Finance Minister Nicola Willis will likely be well aware of the origin of the expression "who shall deliver me from this turbulent priest?"
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Hope for more events
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Hope for more events
The jury is out on whether the government’s events attraction package announced this week will be more promise than production, particularly for the South.
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Protecting hoiho the right move
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Protecting hoiho the right move
They are one of New Zealand’s most distinctive birds, a grumpy beauty whose continued survival is a struggle against multiple threats, many of them caused by humans.
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Turning down the temperature
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Turning down the temperature
A week ago the name Charlie Kirk would have meant little to many New Zealanders.
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NCEA consensus needed
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NCEA consensus needed
Education Minister Erica Stanford has much work to do to avoid proposed changes to secondary school qualifications and curriculums pitting rich and poor schools against each other.
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Filters missing or plain obnoxious?
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Filters missing or plain obnoxious?
Some people with nothing useful to say just open their mouths and let the wind blow their tongues around.
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Making provision for the future
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Making provision for the future
Last weekend’s New Zealand First party annual conference was notable for many things — not the least of which was its large attendance to hear leader Winston Peters’ speech.
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Health data guessing
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Health data guessing
A report commissioned by the senior doctors’ union suggests we have been kidding ourselves about how well our health spending compares with other high-income countries.
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Nibbling away at our snowline
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Nibbling away at our snowline
It is one of the greatest experiences the South Island has to offer — breathing in the crisp, cold air after a bitter southerly spell which has left the mountain plastered with thick, low snow.
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Sad end to a sad story
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Sad end to a sad story
It was almost certain that there was no way Marokopa man Tom Phillips’ long time on the run from the police was going to end well, and so it proved yesterday.
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Unhelpful moves from Health Minister
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Unhelpful moves from Health Minister
The government needs to rethink its clumsy approach to collective bargaining in the public sector.
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The pursuit of justice
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The pursuit of justice
First, the good news.
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Peters has a lovely house to sell
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Peters has a lovely house to sell
Many people have said many things about New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, but few could deny that he is a master of realpolitik.