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Testing regime needs to add up

Polytechnics and universities say institutions received less money from domestic than...

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Testing regime needs to add up

There are few things school-aged children like less than tests, so that is one stakeholder group which will be far from pleased with the government’s announcement this week .

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Cartoonist's view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: Kaikorai, the university and tourism

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Letters to the Editor: Kaikorai, the university and tourism

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the water quality in the Kaikorai stream, the uni's bureaucratic incompetence, and is tourism going to shrink?

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Fizzing with anger and lancing boils of discontent

Workplace Relations Minister Brooke van Velden. Photo: RNZ

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Fizzing with anger and lancing boils of discontent

When the Old School Mate from Feilding phoned to tell me she was looking for a protest, I got it.

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Republic’s second president

Berlin, May 12: Hindenburg took the oath to the Republican Constitution in the Reichstag standing at a table covered with the Republican flag.

Thinking about sentencing consequences

Lessons about jail time can be learned from elsewhere. Photo: Getty Images

Thinking about sentencing consequences

Scrapping shorter prison sentences will not make New Zealanders safer, Fairleigh Gilmour writes.

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Disrespectful consultation

That it occurred once was surprising, and that it happened twice was even more so.

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Cartoonist's view - Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Winter in Central proof that we are not a classless society

A gold-rush era Patearoa cottage in the winter snow. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Winter in Central proof that we are not a classless society

It seems that we live in a class-riddled society.

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Letters to the Editor: pay equity, student housing, cycling trail

Castle St in the student area. Photo: Stephen Jaquiery

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Letters to the Editor: pay equity, student housing, cycling trail

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including pay equity, student housing and not everyone embracing cycling trail.

A new pope represents fresh hope

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV arrives on the main central loggia balcony of St Peter’s Basilica for...

A new pope represents fresh hope

Timothy O'Farrell is far from Rome, but optimistic about Pope Leo XIV.

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Crayfish as a trial

It seems that the crayfish are a great nuisance to the fishermen of the Nugget Bay fleet, as they have a nasty habit of nibbling the bait off the groper hooks, when the boats are at work off the...

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Jury out on abuse redress

Any government faced with responding to the Royal Commission’s Report into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions would find it difficult.

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Cartoonist's view - Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: DCC, Greens and the hospital

The Dunedin hospital inpatient site with the outpatient building behind. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

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Letters to the Editor: DCC, Greens and the hospital

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including what the DCC needs to focus on, a case of Green bashing, and the coalition's slash and burn with our hospital.

Opinion: Lost for words when describing a pillock

Act New Zealand leader David Seymour and his deputy Brooke van Velden. PHOTO: NZ HERALD

Lost for words when having to describe a pillock

Sir Ian Taylor discusses rushed legislation, forgotten women and the triumphant return of the word "pillock".

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India and Israel travel on parallel tracks

A Pakistan Army soldier stands guard at a mosque hit by an Indian strike. PHOTO: REUTERS

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India and Israel travel on parallel tracks

There is a striking parallel between the 20-month war in the Gaza Strip and the week-old not-yet-war between India and Pakistan.

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Discussing the political situation created by the Prime Minister’s death, the Auckland Star remarks that Downie Stewart’s indifferent health will probably prevent him taking the position of Leader,...

Letters to the Editor: Student digs, Kiwi pioneer, Lake Monowai

Letters to the Editor: Student digs, Kiwi pioneer, Lake Monowai

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including student quarter, a pioneering Kiwi and the state of Lake Monowai.

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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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