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Queenstown back on Aussie buyers’ radar

Gidday cobber: Australian buyers are back in Queenstown. PHOTO: TRACEY ROXBURGH

Queenstown back on Aussie buyers’ radar

Australians have always had an eye on Queenstown, but over the past month there has been a 30% increase in inquiries from across the Tasman from people looking to buy property here.

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Solar storms: possible solution looms

An aurora glowing in Dunedin's southern skies, fuelled by solar flares. PHOTO: CRAIG BAXTER

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Solar storms: possible solution looms

Solar storms are not even in my top five threat list to humankind (nuclear war, asteroid strikes, super-volcano eruptions, a supernova within 30-50 light years, and intergalactic pirates), but they...

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A dinosaur worth preserving

The dinosaur slide. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH

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A dinosaur worth preserving

Dinosaurs disappeared from most places millions of years ago, but one green, pink and blue example has survived in a St Kilda park.

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Sara Cohen School opened

The "open-air school" (later named by education advocate Mark Cohen in memory of his wife) was...

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Sara Cohen School opened

Beautiful weather favoured the little ceremony that marked the official opening of the new open-air school at Caversham yesterday afternoon, the first school of its kind in the district.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

Send me your teenagers — we are the future

Education Minister Erica Stanford, left, being shown around United Machinists by chief executive...

Send me your teenagers — we are the future

Do your kids like the idea of earning money straight out of school, and earning $80–90k before they’re 30?

Writing an obituary for Britain — maybe

Once a fundamental of British life, the Sunday church service. PHOTO: REUTERS

Writing an obituary for Britain — maybe

Britain has lost its mojo, Tony Martin writes.

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Stay close in times of trouble

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (L) meets with New Zealand's Prime Minister...

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Stay close in times of trouble

For an army which has been ‘‘virtually decapitated”, to quote United States President Donald Trump, Iran’s defence forces still seem to have plenty of life in them.

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Yorks invited to NZ

The christening of Britain’s Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (the future Queen Elizabeth II) on...

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Yorks invited to NZ

London, June 8: A New Zealand dinner in farewell to High Commissioner Sir James Allen, who presided, was held to-day.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

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Let’s hear it for the 80-year-olds - a premier generation

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Let’s hear it for the 80-year-olds - a premier generation

What a great job the octogenarians are doing.

Lowering the drawbridge to examine the elephant

The proposed Santana mine site, now with added elephant. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

Lowering the drawbridge to examine the elephant

Gerrard Eckhoff laments the battle of the experts over the proposed Santana gold mine.

Why roads rather than hospitals?

The new Dunedin hospital — value for money. PHOTO: GREGOR RICHARDSON

Why roads rather than hospitals?

We need hospitals, not roads, Dave Bainbridge-Zafar writes.

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Supermarket tinkering

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Supermarket tinkering

Jaded shoppers will not have been surprised there has been little improvement in supermarket competition in the last year, despite years of noise about it.

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Notes from Ophir

A view of Ophir from the east. The Presbyterian Church stands in the centre and the
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Notes from Ophir

Since the four days and nights of fog last week we have been enjoying typical Central Otago weather — bright, sunny days and clear, keen, frosty nights.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

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What does Netanyahu want to achieve in Lebanon?

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not quite so friendly now....

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What does Netanyahu want to achieve in Lebanon?

‘‘The war is over,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress last Tuesday. But it isn’t.

The UN needs more than good intentions; it needs funding

Kazakh peacekeepers returning from a UN mission in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. PHOTO:...

The UN needs more than good intentions; it needs funding

New Zealand needs to back the United Nations, Clarice Atkins writes.

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Hold the El Nino hyperbole

A view of cracked ground at a dam, as Zimbabwe is experiencing an El Nino-induced drought. PHOTO:...

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Hold the El Nino hyperbole

Nobody these days could ever complain about a lack of bad news they can really sink their teeth into and get ever more anxious about.

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Rail workers train in first aid

No-one was injured in this railway mishap at Palmerston on March 18, 1926 in which an engine...

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Rail workers train in first aid

In pursuance of the ‘‘Safety First’’ campaign launched recently by the railway authorities, employees of the service have received a handy booklet dealing with the preliminary treatment of...

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