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A sad sign of the times
It's a perennial question which becomes even more insistent at this stage of the three-year cycle: Why would anyone want to be a local body councillor?
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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Exploring diligently throughout Question Time
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Exploring diligently throughout Question Time
When I get back from leave, I am going to have to find out if the HR department is in cahoots with the government.
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The Secret Diary of . . . Sir Ian Taylor
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The Secret Diary of . . . Sir Ian Taylor
Dear Jacinda
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Up tos, kid prices and the % of griping
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Up tos, kid prices and the % of griping
It's been months since Civis’ curmudgeon corner, a place to vent about some gripe or other.
Within living memory . . .
Within living memory . . .
You couldn’t pull the wool over these girls’ eyes . . .
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New sawmill bridge built
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New sawmill bridge built
The largest sawmill tramway bridge in the Dominion was recently constructed.
No longer a waka for everyone
No longer a waka for everyone
Former prime minister Dame Jacinda Ardern was once celebrated around the world, but now only brand Jacinda remains, writes Sir Ian Taylor.
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The deal and the art
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The deal and the art
The great business sage Donald J Trump, in his classic The Art Of The Deal, wrote: ‘I always go into a deal anticipating the worst. If you plan for the worst — if you can live with the worst —...
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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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Edward too busy to marry
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Edward too busy to marry
Matters relating to the question of the marriage of the Prince of Wales are discussed by Mr G. Ward Price, who is accompanying the Prince on his tour in South Africa in the capacity of official correspondent.
Nothing so shocking as a democratic-socialist in New York
Nothing so shocking as a democratic-socialist in New York
Even here, at the bottom of the world, the phenomenon that is Zohran Mamdani is making an impact.
Today Tuvalu; tomorrow the world
Today Tuvalu; tomorrow the world
Some big changes arrive with a bang, but usually they sort of sneak in and you barely notice them at first. The big change last week was the creation of the world’s first climate-change visas.
What does it mean to train doctors: not just for today, but for decades?
What does it mean to train doctors: not just for today, but for decades?
Tim Wilkinson busts some myths about what it takes to become an effective doctor.
Taylor to Ardern: Not the first letter, by far the most difficult
Taylor to Ardern: Not the first letter, by far the most difficult
Dear Jacinda. This is not the first open letter I have written to you.
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Less of the bombast, please
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Less of the bombast, please
Comprehensive evaluation of how local government is organised and the role it plays may be necessary, but getting a rational debate on it will be difficult.
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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: death, taxes and road cones
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Letters to the Editor: death, taxes and road cones
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including outrage at the protest songs about Gaza, a spokesman for the Trumpian world, and the truth about road cones.
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Hungry for answers in a Budapest hotel
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Hungry for answers in a Budapest hotel
Budapest. I last came here in the 1980s when Hungary was still ostensibly communist, part of the Warsaw Pact and under the grim governing eye of the Russians.
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Slips, derailment block line
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Slips, derailment block line
The Dunedin-Ranfurly line which was blocked owing to slips and fallen rock near Mt Allan about 6pm on Wednesday is still closed.