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Steering legislative ship through choppy waters

Rachel Brooking speaks on the Natural and Built Environment Bill. Photos: Parliament

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Steering legislative ship through choppy waters

It has been a big week for Rachel Brooking, who got to steer the government’s legislative ship for several parts of the passage of the Natural and Built Environment Bill.

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Advocates railing against health inequities

Jane Ludemann, founder of the Cure Our Ovarian Cancer Charitable Trust (left), briefs Parliament...

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Advocates railing against health inequities

There are many things that the South is short of in the health sector, but one thing the region has no dearth of is activists prepared to stand up and fight Otago and Southland’s corner.

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Govt marches on with irresolute disabilities policy, little support

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Govt marches on with irresolute disabilities policy, little support

Many of us will have cringed through a situation where ourselves or someone we know is trying as hard as they can to make things better for somebody but is only succeeding in making things worse.

National reveals approach to hospital

National leader Christopher Luxon in Dunedin yesterday, flanked by local list MP Michael...

National reveals approach to hospital

For some of you this will be a dream come true, for others it will your worst nightmare.

Nuclear disarmament called for

Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta opens the University of Otago’s Foreign Policy School at St...

Nuclear disarmament called for

There are many professions in which words matter: journalism, to name one obvious one.

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Southern voters in sights of party leaders

Winston Peters, campaigning in the South in 2020. PHOTO: LUISA GIRAO

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Southern voters in sights of party leaders

Often it seems the South is ignored during election year, but we can hardly complain about the number of politicians who have come to see us recently.

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Electorate carving fiddly for panel

South Island electorate map. Photo: supplied

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Electorate carving fiddly for panel

Readers may remember that a year or so ago the Government established an independent commission to review New Zealand’s electoral law.

MPs pay homage to Hillside pilgrimage site

Ingrid Leary (left) and Rachel Brooking (right) show ‘‘the Boss’’, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins,...

MPs pay homage to Hillside pilgrimage site

One of the innovations of this Parliament has been the Local Issues debate, a sporadically-scheduled couple of hours for MPs to sound off about whatever they feel like, just so long as they can fit...

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Mixed reaction to PM on southern sojourn

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Mixed reaction to PM on southern sojourn

The weather should be politically neutral but sometimes you wonder... a fortnight ago Chris Luxon came to Dunedin in the midst of teeming rain, while Grant Robertson and Chris Hipkins have enjoyed glorious sunshine for their visits.

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Bold to rule out working with Te Pāti Māori

Thumbs up from the relentlessly positive Chris
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Bold to rule out working with Te Pāti Māori

Get used to seeing National leader Chris Luxon out and about in Otago and Southland.

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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum

The Thomas Burns freedom camping site. PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH

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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum

It has been said, from time to time, that politicians talk nothing but crap.

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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum

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Mooney vexed by messy conundrum

It has been said, from time to time, that politicians talk nothing but crap.

A Bill with profound possibilities

Labour Dunedin MP David Clark shares a family story with the House. PHOTO: PARLIAMENT TV

A Bill with profound possibilities

Parliament generally, makes laws which apply to anyone and everyone, including the Crown. But, rarely, it considers a law which applies to only a single person.

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‘Waka jumping laws’ put to the test

The question raised by Meka Whaitiri this week. PHOTO: MARK MITCHELL

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‘Waka jumping laws’ put to the test

Michael Woodhouse has danced delicately around the sensibilities of Speaker Adrian Rurawhe a few times since returning to the role of shadow leader of the House.

Brooking’s fishing gig far from easy

Launching public consultation on the draft Fishing Industry Transformation Plan are (from left)...

Brooking’s fishing gig far from easy

If you are a newly-appointed minister, what you crave is something nice and simple to do early doors.

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Southern candidates’ struggles

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Southern candidates’ struggles

It has not been a good few days for parties other than Labour hoping to elect MPs from the southern region to Parliament.

Sad ironies as patient’s advocacy lives on

Melissa and Blair Vining attend a 2019 celebration of his petition for a national cancer agency...

Sad ironies as patient’s advocacy lives on

Parliament does not usually set out to be deliberately ironic, but often the way its processes work mean that it inadvertently gives one cause to shake one’s head.

Triumph and tragedy spurs proposal

King’s High School old boy and Sport and Recreation Minister Grant Robertson shoots the first...

Triumph and tragedy spurs proposal

Everyone loves a sporting triumph — a Black Ferns World Cup, Wānaka young people winning Winter Olympic gold medals, an Otago woman topping the motorcycling world.

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Week of House firsts for southern MPs

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Week of House firsts for southern MPs

It was a week of firsts in Parliament for our southern MPs: Rino Tirikatene passed his first Bill as a minister and Joseph Mooney asked his first primary at Question Time.

DHB back from the dead for last huzzah

The Southern District Health Board at the health select committee, (from left) Te Whatu Ora...

DHB back from the dead for last huzzah

It is Easter, approximately, the time when the resurrection is marked, so it seems a fitting time for district health boards to make a comeback from the dead.

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