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‘The beginning of the end’ in Ukraine?
Ukraine war escalation and the election of Donald Trump make the world feel more dangerous.
Editorial
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Questions remain over CEO behaviour
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Questions remain over CEO behaviour
Nobody would suggest being a local government chief executive is a walk in the park.
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Pointless and polarising politics
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Pointless and polarising politics
Was yesterday the day that National Party leader Christopher Luxon’s all-consuming desire to become prime minister, come what may, backfired loudly?
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Reading, writing and thinking
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Reading, writing and thinking
Literacy limitations among those who should be the best educated — tertiary students — have always been an issue.
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Hospital future still murky
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Hospital future still murky
Seven weeks after Health Minister Shane Reti and Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop came to Dunedin to scaremonger about the Dunedin hospital rebuild, we are no clearer about what will happen next.
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Better consent processes overdue
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Better consent processes overdue
Its beggars belief that 36 years after Silvia Cartwright’s cervical cancer inquiry criticised unconsented vaginal examinations performed on anaesthetised women, the issue is still in the headlines.
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A divisive and unnecessary day
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A divisive and unnecessary day
David Seymour believes he has instigated an important national conversation, but the first reading debate of his Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill was nothing more than an undignified...
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Burn, baby, burn in Trump’s world
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Burn, baby, burn in Trump’s world
It is that time of year again, when the great and not-so-great, the pragmatic and the optimistic, the developed and the developing, butt heads to make some progress on slowing climate change.
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Will saying sorry ease the pain?
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Will saying sorry ease the pain?
Apologies, once postponed, became harder and harder to make, and finally impossible, Scarlett O’Hara said in Gone With The Wind.
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Long-needed law change nears
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Long-needed law change nears
A longstanding anomaly in New Zealand law is about to be eliminated and not before time.
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Treaty Principles Bill lands
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Treaty Principles Bill lands
Nothing about the Treaty Principles Bill can escape controversy.
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Our turn to visit them
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Our turn to visit them
First the Octagon, then the South, then the roads leading to Cook Strait, and finally the other island and Parliament itself.
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Uncertain times for everyone
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Uncertain times for everyone
The election and resurrection of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States guarantees rollercoaster years ahead.
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Deja vu all over again
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Deja vu all over again
One Donald Trump presidency seemed unlikely enough; that the 45th president of the United States is now poised to become the 47th President is extraordinary.
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Land of the free, home of the brave?
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Land of the free, home of the brave?
Can you hear that? It’s the sound of the world holding its breath and hoping good will win out over bad, democracy over demagoguery.
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The fresh eyes of jurors
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The fresh eyes of jurors
We raise the bar for jury trials at our peril.
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Waikato medical school folly
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Waikato medical school folly
When the government wants to put every taxpayer dollar spent under intense scrutiny, so it is not funding dumb stuff, it is hard to understand why the third medical school proposal is not a dead duck.
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Steering the wrong course
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Steering the wrong course
To say the atmosphere was tense on the bridge of the Interislander ferry Aratere on the evening of June 21 would probably be putting things mildly.
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Chogm’s limited impact
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Chogm’s limited impact
As the dust settles after last week’s Commonwealth heads of government (Chogm) meeting in Samoa it is difficult to remember much of lasting significance.
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Proceeding carefully on self-certification
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Proceeding carefully on self-certification
Wariness about government proposals which would allow builders, plumbers and drainlayers to self-certify some of their work is understandable.