Opinion

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A great display of pyrotechnics

A New Year’s Eve fireworks display depicting WW1’s Battle of Jutland at the New Zealand and South...

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A great display of pyrotechnics

It is many years since Dunedin people have been offered anything ambitious in the way of a fireworks display and undoubtedly the promised £500 demonstration was one of the outstanding events at the...

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Hard year for many but New Zealand is not yet broken

Nicola Willis and Christopher Luxon. PHOTO: JULIE ASHER

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Hard year for many but New Zealand is not yet broken

It's just a speck in the sky at first but travelling at tremendous speed.

Not just peace enforcers needed

Beachgoers return to Bondi, photographed from behind a piece of cloth bearing messages left by...

Not just peace enforcers needed

There are obvious questions about the Bondi massacre but they are not enough, Tony Martin writes.

The simple dots which simply mean an enormous amount to many

A Perkins Braille machine. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

The simple dots which simply mean an enormous amount to many

Braille is an everyday language, not a specialist code, Andrea Midgen writes.

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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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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Shaun Yeo's best of 2025.

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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.

What price preservation of endangered geckos?

A jewelled gecko on Otago Peninsula. PHOTO: CAREY KNOX

What price preservation of endangered geckos?

Why not sell jewelled geckos Gerrard Eckhoff writes.

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School marks jubilee one year late

Past and present pupils of Clinton School assemble for the school’s 50th anniversary. — Otago...

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School marks jubilee one year late

For over 50 years the Clinton School has stood at the northern end of the town, and when its jubilee was celebrated yesterday many acquaintances were renewed.

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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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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Shaun Yeo's best of 2025.

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Cricket for 160 years — the timeless game at Patearoa

Scorer William Davis at Brighton in 1842. PHOTO: MELBOURNE CRICKET CLUB MUSEUM

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Cricket for 160 years — the timeless game at Patearoa

There's not much that can beat an afternoon in the sun watching the cricket. It’s a timeless pleasure; the sun having been around for a while and cricket going back to the 1500s or even earlier.