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Editorial: A strange type of progress
The highly contentious Health and Safety at Work Amendment Bill now going through Parliament has some parallels with an earlier piece of unpopular coalition work.
Opinion
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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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Robustly criticising feedback
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Robustly criticising feedback
The already infamous Biometric Capability Upgrade is a debacle on several fronts.
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The secret diary of ... Police Commissioner Richard Chambers
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The secret diary of ... Police Commissioner Richard Chambers
Steve Braunias looks at what Police Commissioner Richard Chambers has been up to this week . . .
In living memory
In living memory
It took the best part of a morning in June 1986 and about 15 people to move the Māori canoe from the place in the Otago Museum where it had rested for the past 32 years.
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Sorry, not sorry, or distasteful? Redress brings rancour
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Sorry, not sorry, or distasteful? Redress brings rancour
Back in November 2024, in a sombre debate during which the House demonstrated appropriate unity, MPs assembled for the government’s official apology to those abused while in the care of the State.
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Cox wins road race
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Cox wins road race
One of the most outstanding harrier events of the year is the Port Chalmers road race, which was started in 1902, and which, with the exception of the war period and 1922, has been held regularly...
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Cold fury over hot rates rises
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Cold fury over hot rates rises
It was icy cold in Oamaru yesterday but the indignation was red hot as Waitaki District Council ratepayers rallied to protest the amount that their rates are set to rise by.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo
How to safeguard Kiwi democracy?
How to safeguard Kiwi democracy?
We all need to keep an eye on protecting our democracy, Paul Foster-Bell writes.
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Defining men and women legislates for creepy peeping
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Defining men and women legislates for creepy peeping
The St Matthew’s Church billboard ‘‘We don’t care what’s in your pants’’ amuses me no end. I quite agree.
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Losing the PR battle
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Losing the PR battle
As the saying goes, explaining is losing.
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Unable to refund ferry company
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Unable to refund ferry company
The monthly meeting of the Otago Harbour Board was held last night.
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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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Twenty-four moves from curing knee pain
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Twenty-four moves from curing knee pain
Fifteen years ago I had a sore right knee.
Generational shift in Kelvin Heights
Generational shift in Kelvin Heights
There is something quietly happening in Kelvin Heights that says a lot about how Queenstown has changed over the past 50 or 60 years.
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Dealing with the legacy of slavery
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Dealing with the legacy of slavery
At a ‘‘high-level United Nations consultative conference’’ in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called on the countries that benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade to...
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Boards try each other’s patience
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Boards try each other’s patience
The Secretary of the South Otago Hospital Board wrote to the Otago Hospital Board stating that in future his board would take no responsibility for any patient admitted to Dunedin Hospital from its...
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Downing St kitchen gets too hot
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Downing St kitchen gets too hot
When, not if, was always going to be the case with the resignation of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, which finally came in an emotional statement on Monday morning UK time.
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo