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Anyone who has known the shock and pain of the aftermath of self-inflicted death, family-close or friendship-wide, will be hoping the new suicide prevention strategy announced this week will make a...

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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: property, cycling and Zen

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Letters to the Editor: property, cycling and Zen

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including overseas purchases for properties over $5m, cyclists on Albany St, and Zen and the art of climate management.

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Avoid the bus to hellfire and damnation

A central Oslo transport hub. Photo: Getty Images

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Avoid the bus to hellfire and damnation

St Olav Gate in Oslo, and a sleek red bus draws up beside me.

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Med school project launched

Medical students look on as Sir James Parr, minister of education, lays a foundation stone for...

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Med school project launched

The ceremony of the laying of the foundation stones of the new Otago Medical School in King street took place yesterday afternoon.

Forestry not behind sheep decline

In decline, but not forestry’s fault. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

Forestry not behind sheep decline

We need to see the sheep for the trees, Richard Holloway writes.

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If you cannot do it, should you decide who will be doing it?

How to manage water provision. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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If you cannot do it, should you decide who will be doing it?

Water is the most critical issue we face.

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Until the next disaster comes

The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is New Zealand's largest fault because of the area that could move...

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Until the next disaster comes

One thing you can guarantee is you won’t be expecting it when it happens.

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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: English, Māori and the DCC

Dunedin City Council. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

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Letters to the Editor: English, Māori and the DCC

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the scope of the new English curriculum, the "disgraceful behaviour" of Te Pāti Māori, and matters for the DCC.

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Minnows, pike and parliamentary sovereignty

Parliament can do without the Regulatory Standards Bill, Anaru Eketone says. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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Minnows, pike and parliamentary sovereignty

"In a lake stocked with minnows and minnow-eating pike, freedom for the pike means death to the minnows."

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Sister of Compassion feted

French-born nun Suzanne Aubert, Rev Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, of Wellington, who recently...

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Sister of Compassion feted

Letters about the good work done for so many years by the Rev Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, who celebrated her ninetieth birthday recently, continue to appear in the papers in Wellington.

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Be careful what you wish for, Netanyahu

Emergency personnel in Haifa after an Iranian missile attack. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Be careful what you wish for, Netanyahu

Israel's war with Iran is definitely the war that Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu has wanted all along, but he may have bitten off more than he can chew.

Working together for the wellbeing of the Manuherikia River

Rows of native trees to be planted near the Lauder Creek Bridge over the Manuherikia River as...

Working together for the wellbeing of the Manuherikia River

Clare Hadley reflects on the first year of the Waiora Manuherekia project.

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Lachie Jones and a plea to police

Toddler Lachlan Jones, 3, who drowned in a sewage oxidation pond in Gore. PHOTO: JONES FAMILY...

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Lachie Jones and a plea to police

Sometimes the police are their own worst enemy. As much as we yearn for confidence in them, they let us down.

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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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Politicians need to appreciate fine New Zealand literature

Great Kiwi literature ... Julius Vogel and Hairy Maclary. IMAGES: ODT FILES

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Politicians need to appreciate fine New Zealand literature

Jacinda has written a book, and most bookshops have it in their non-fiction shelves, unlike all political parties’ election manifestos which are, quite rightly, to be found in the fiction section.

Ignoring the doctor’s advice not a sound strategy

A dried lake as drought strikes the island of Sicily. PHOTO: REUTERS

Ignoring the doctor’s advice not a sound strategy

New Zealand is ignoring climate warnings, John Drummond writes.

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Plea to pull over for sirens

A Christchurch Fire Brigade engine in which Station Officer J.H. Noblett (pictured) was killed,...

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Plea to pull over for sirens

Christchurch, June 16: Apropos of last night’s tragedy, in an interview to-day Superintendent Warner, of the Christchurch Fire Brigade, stressed the necessity for the public to show consideration...

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Unease over Israel/Iran conflict

First-responders gather outside a building that was hit by an Israeli strike in Tehran on Friday,...

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Unease over Israel/Iran conflict

Shortly after news broke of Israel’s aerial attacks on Iran, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made the cautious understatement they were an "unwelcome development" for the Middle East.

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