Opinion

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Letters to the Editor: Rates, solar site and Stewart Is

A drone shot of the proposed solar farm site on Ranfurly-Naseby Road. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Letters to the Editor: Rates, solar site and Stewart Is

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including call for higher rates, solar site plan and Stewart Island is a special place.

There's gonna be a storm quite soon as election due

The Dunedin City Council at work. PHOTO: DCC

There's gonna be a storm quite soon as election due

Local body elections are a flawed process, Gerrard Eckhoff writes.

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Rail services sped up

The Christchurch-Invercargill expresses, Christchurch-Dunedin, and Dunedin-Invercargill mail trains have been accelerated, the time of the journey being reduced in the case of the longer-distance...

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Sunday parking changes

There is an understandable level of grumpiness among some ratepayers over the plans to introduce Sunday parking fees in some inner-city streets.

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Cartoonist's view - Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: Gaza, health and privacy

Environment Southland chairman Nicol Horrell. Photo: supplied

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Letters to the Editor: Gaza, health and privacy

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the lies around starvation in Gaza, funding the public health system, and a lumpen invasion of privacy.

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Trump melodrama: might some relief be close?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and United States President Donald Trump. PHOTO: GETTY...

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Trump melodrama: might some relief be close?

If you are getting tired of the on-again-off-again Ukraine "peace deal" that has been hogging the headlines for the past few months, relief is at hand.

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The enduring mystery of Arthur’s Seat

Arthur’s Seat rises over the Edinburgh suburb of Morningside. PHOTO: REUTERS

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The enduring mystery of Arthur’s Seat

I have climbed Arthur’s Seat probably about five times in my life.

A history of Māori representation, from Parliament to councils

The Māori Parliament of 1913. PHOTO: OTAGO WITNESS

A history of Māori representation, from Parliament to councils

Māori should decide the fate of Māori seats in Parliament, Grant McLachlan writes. The establishment of Māori seats in New Zealand’s Parliament in 1867 tells a story of political calculation rather...

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Explorers plan to sail to NZ

William Unitt and his daughter Dora, in Plymouth, Devon in their 20-foot yawl 'Merganser'. —...

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Explorers plan to sail to NZ

London: An ex-naval man, William Unitt, intends to sail from Plymouth on September 3 for New Zealand in a nine-ton yawl-rigged boat.

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Watching via video link as Stephenson dices with danger

Speaker Gerry Brownlee. Photo: Parliament TV

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Watching via video link as Stephenson dices with danger

Todd Stephenson doesn’t really strike one as being danger adjacent, even if the Act New Zealand Southland list MP does live in the adrenaline sports capital of the world.

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