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Letters to the Editor: rates, developers and trillionaires

Elon Musk, not quite exclusive company. Photo: Getty Images

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Letters to the Editor: rates, developers and trillionaires

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including rates rises in Waitaki, development hell in Queenstown Lakes, and the dubious uniqueness of Elon Musk.

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Assassination as state policy making ugly comeback

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer: an unwitting target. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Assassination as state policy making ugly comeback

Britain’s soon-to-be-ex prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, is so harmless and ineffectual that it’s hard to imagine anyone wanting to kill him, but somebody in Russia apparently did.

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Pilgrims for peace

London, June 20: Mostly dressed in blue tabards, crusaders’ cloaks and sandals, and bearing banners inscribed “Law, not war,’’ thousands of women of all ages and classes forming...

Letters to the Editor: fairness, vulgarity and monkeys

Home of the unelected appointees. Photo: Getty Images

Letters to the Editor: fairness, vulgarity and monkeys

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including abolishing the "Fairness Doctrine", how standards have dropped, and "cheese-eating surrender monkeys".

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Tread softly with South Dunedin

The 2015 flooding in South Dunedin. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Tread softly with South Dunedin

Home is where the heart is, we’re told.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

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Frantic scrutiny of MBIE

Parliament has spend this week enjoying/enduring (delete as you see fit) scrutiny week, its twice yearly in-depth examination of government expenditure by select committees.

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The secret diary of ... Matthew Hooton

Matthew Hooton, not beginning his journalism career as a cadet.

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The secret diary of ... Matthew Hooton

The first week in the job of the best qualified person to destroy a Wellington newspaper.

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Hockey an exhibition of brilliancy

The visiting Indian Army hockey team's match against Otago: play near the Otago goal at...

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Hockey an exhibition of brilliancy

Never before in the history of hockey in New Zealand has such public interest been aroused in the game as has centred during the past month in the visit of the Indian Army...

In living memory

Practising before competing in the Dunedin district 1986 Westpac School Music Competition, are Logan Park jazz band members Juliet Pope (trumpet), Sophie Bond ...

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How to set MP perks while rest struggle

Karen Chhour spent $16,686 in airport parking. Photo by Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images

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How to set MP perks while rest struggle

Civis joins the outrage about MPs’ and ex-MPs’ entitlements.

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The virtue of working together

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The virtue of working together

For those who cynically suggest that our politicians cannot work together on anything, Parliament this week offered evidence to the contrary in the form of the government’s response to the National...

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo

A catastrophic future for humanity is not inevitable as we have agency

Pope Leo XIV signs ‘‘Magnifica humanitas’’ (Magnificent Humanity). PHOTO: REUTERS

A catastrophic future for humanity is not inevitable as we have agency

In less than four years since OpenAI launched ChatGPT, AI technology has shifted from theoretical and technical conversations among computer scientists in the digital tech industry and universities...

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Picking the radical as the Left-Right culture war rages on

It’s the vikings . . . or the left-wingers. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Picking the radical as the Left-Right culture war rages on

The contemporary Left dismisses the very idea of ‘‘culture war’’ with a curled lip and rolling eyes.

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No-one can answer the Irish Question

Demonstrators taking part in a ‘United Against Racism’ rally in Belfast, after days of anti...

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No-one can answer the Irish Question

Last week’s violence in Northern Ireland, not really a ‘‘protest’’ but an organised pogrom, is being seized on by the British and international hard right as further evidence that ‘‘out-of-control...

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Early settler centenarian dies

Mrs Ann Watson, who died at Auckland on June 18, 1926 at the age of 100 years and three months....

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Early settler centenarian dies

Mrs Ann Watson, who reached her hundredth birthday in March last, died yesterday afternoon at the Auckland Infirmary, where she was admitted on the 2nd of this month.

Ian Taylor: Jones' mining sums don't add up

If mining is the key to funding public infrastructure then why did Otago have to campaign for a new hospital when the province is home to New Zealand’s largest gold mine?

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Immigration IT debacle

Erica Stanford. Photo: RNZ / Mark Papalii

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Immigration IT debacle

The latest scandal involving a multimillion-dollar public spend on dud information technology involves questions which extend well beyond those immediately involved.

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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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