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Pouring oil on troubled waters
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Pouring oil on troubled waters
New Zealand has plenty of fuel in storage and plenty more on the way, Finance Minister Nicola Willis stressed yesterday, in a briefing on the Gulf crisis.
Opinion
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.
Whingeing about the stadium again solves nothing
Whingeing about the stadium again solves nothing
We need to make do the best we can with the stadium, Richard O’Mahony writes.
Still hope for this hoiho generation
Still hope for this hoiho generation
Preventing hoiho extinction needs intelligent tinkering, Philip Seddon and Yolanda van Heezik write.
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Intrepid tales of a rebel bikie and his troubles with the law
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Intrepid tales of a rebel bikie and his troubles with the law
Our caring government, never afraid to tackle the big issues, has legalised kids under 12 riding bicycles on the footpath, but for me this seismic shift in the legal landscape has come too late.
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Blame levelled at motorists
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Blame levelled at motorists
Level crossings do not present a problem that is peculiar to New Zealand.
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Flexible funding fallout
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Flexible funding fallout
If the government wants the public to see restoration of flexible disability support funding as a triumph, it must assume everyone is disabled by amnesia.
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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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Letters to the Editor: mining, parking and nuclear power
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Letters to the Editor: mining, parking and nuclear power
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including mining in Central Otago, an alternative parking scheme, and an honest conversation about nuclear.
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Voting for a Maori MP accountable to Maori voters
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Voting for a Maori MP accountable to Maori voters
I have no idea how I will vote in this year’s general election.
The ever dangerous myth of the just war
The ever dangerous myth of the just war
As war rages an old myth is being rolled out again, Graham Redding writes.
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Caught in a trap of his own making, Trump looks for ways out
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Caught in a trap of his own making, Trump looks for ways out
Donald Trump is caught in the trap that he helped to build, and he is starting to flail against his fate.
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Keeping cows well-stoked
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Keeping cows well-stoked
The cow is simply an organic engine for manufacturing milk, and like the steam engine, she must be supplied in the first with fuel or fodder to create energy sufficient to move her own body from...
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Taking a gamble and the law of unintended consequences
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Taking a gamble and the law of unintended consequences
The thing about politics, to borrow a cliche, is that you pay your money and you take your chances.
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Up, up and ... not so fast ...
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Up, up and ... not so fast ...
War is about geography and its advantages as much as about politics.
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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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Letters to the Editor: Benedict Ong, mining and concrete
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Letters to the Editor: Benedict Ong, mining and concrete
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the damage done by Benedict Ong, a destroyer of our natural beauty, and the "concretisation" of Dunedin.
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The secret diary of ... the Covid inquiry
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The secret diary of ... the Covid inquiry
By Steve Braunias
In living memory
In living memory
Only a few kilometres away from ending a two-day mystery tramp in 1986 are Milton scouts Clynt McGregor, Peter Dickinson, Bryan Forde, Craig Wells, Gavin Smith and Jason Altenburg.
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Plea to open expo on Good Friday
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Plea to open expo on Good Friday
A great many people must be feeling disappointed over the closing of the Exhibition on Good Friday.