Crouch, pause, touch ... but no need to engage just yet
Crouch, pause, touch ... but no need to engage just yet
There is no need to rush decisions on local government change, Alan Somerville writes.
Opinion
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Letters to the Editor: doctor training, mining, Bowen Peak
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Letters to the Editor: doctor training, mining, Bowen Peak
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including doctor training, mining, Bowen Peak development and media.
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Potentate backs son
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Potentate backs son
London, May 19: “I am glad now I abdicated,” said the Begum of Bhopal, who is sailing from London for India to-day.
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Back to the future with NZ First
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Back to the future with NZ First
On Sunday New Zealand First leader Winston Peters trekked to West Auckland — ‘‘the home of traditional hard-working Kiwi battlers’’ to announce two policies he hopes will resonate with that...
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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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Among the poets and poplars during a Central Otago autumn
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Among the poets and poplars during a Central Otago autumn
Ah, what pleasures come with autumn! It’s a season for all men.
Mining proposal an Aesop moment
Mining proposal an Aesop moment
Outcry about the Santana gold mine proposal brings a famous fable to mind, Gerrard Eckhoff writes.
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Port Otago assets
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Port Otago assets
Where Port Otago will fit with any reorganisation of local government in the Otago region is already shaping up as a contentious issue.
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Fine run of fish
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Fine run of fish
This year trapping and stripping proceeded without any serious interruption, and the results show a considerable improvement.
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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: resthomes, reforms and former mayors
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Letters to the Editor: resthomes, reforms and former mayors
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including short staffing at resthomes, taking time for local reform, and the false statements of a former mayor.
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Forget being PM, Luxon is presidential material
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Forget being PM, Luxon is presidential material
I think I may have just inadvertently become a republican.
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Majestic, mysterious monuments marvel
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Majestic, mysterious monuments marvel
It was a rather miserable afternoon when I first visited the Callanish standing stones on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides.
The BIG war is not likely, but plenty of small wars are ongoing
The BIG war is not likely, but plenty of small wars are ongoing
A Politico opinion poll conducted in the four biggest Nato countries in February revealed almost identical popular expectations about the likelihood of a global war in the next five years.
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Auckland bus crash
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Auckland bus crash
Auckland, May 17: A young woman was killed this morning when a fully-laden motor bus, which was travelling from Onehunga to Auckland, struck a telegraph pole in Manukau road at half-past eight.
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Letters to the Editor: council, debt and furniture
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Letters to the Editor: council, debt and furniture
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including Aaron Hawkins' failed by-election bid, the facts of intergenerational debt, and the tragedy of Dunedin Furniture.
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Our place in the world
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Our place in the world
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon gave the first of what will likely be a series of pre-Budget speeches earlier this week.
Only fools and horses will predict the future
Only fools and horses will predict the future
Ah, the perils of predictions. Civis was both right and wrong in forecasting the outcome of the Dunedin City Council by-election.
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The secret diary of ... opinion polls
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The secret diary of ... opinion polls
A new poll shows support for Christopher Luxon has plummeted beneath the crust of the Earth and is thought to be somewhere between the outer core and inner core.
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Shifting paradigms and protecting precious natural places
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Shifting paradigms and protecting precious natural places
This week the government progressed a range of legislation which will preserve New Zealand’s species and environments for generations to come.