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Letters to the Editor: elections, gold and dead rats

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Letters to the Editor: elections, gold and dead rats

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including another year of local body elections, an emotional diatribe against gold mining, and to swallow a dead rat.

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Taking in sights and sounds of O-Week

Leith St during O-Week 2020. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

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Taking in sights and sounds of O-Week

The rite of passage that is the hedonistic alcohol-soaked privilege of tertiary education is an all-too familiar literary trope: Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited and recent cinematic...

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The two different kinds of thieves

Congolese volunteers and former rebels gather at a rally to mobilise against the possible M23...

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The two different kinds of thieves

What is the difference between smash-and-grab raids and protection rackets?

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Mental health priorities

Matt Doocey, one of the ministers responsible for assessing the Royal Commission's...

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Mental health priorities

There was enthusiasm for the appointment of the first Minister for Mental Health a year ago.

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A Catlins adventure

The river junction where the Tahakopa and Maclennan Rivers join. Papatōwai is in the distance. —...

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A Catlins adventure

Much has been written concerning the lakes of Otago and Southland, the Hot Springs of the north, and the glacial wonders of the Southern Alps.

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Not quite paradise after all

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Not quite paradise after all

In the well-known and much-viewed Air New Zealand safety video, many of the country’s most stunning landscapes are put forward as the "eighth wonder of the world".

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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: buses, tourism and the hospital

Fare hikes unfair. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON

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Letters to the Editor: buses, tourism and the hospital

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including making buses accessible and affordable, the new tourism slogan, and the cost of hospital maintenance.

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Quality, autonomy, and everything going brown

David Seymour samples one of his $3 school lunches. Photo: RNZ

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Quality, autonomy, and everything going brown

If the offspring ever get organised enough to write the damning story of my mothering, school lunches are bound to feature.

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Superior boat in good hands

Start of the first Sanders Cup race of 14-foot dinghies: Iona (Otago, left) in the lead followed...

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Superior boat in good hands

The 1925 Sanders Cup contests will be generally voted by yachtsmen as the most exciting of the series of races between the 14-footers yet held in the dominion.

Tariffs and Trump’s hot-metal debacle

US tariffs have implications for Bluff’s Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

Tariffs and Trump’s hot-metal debacle

The US return to tariffs has ramifications for us all, Andrew Perchard writes.

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Arch enemy in Wānaka

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Arch enemy in Wānaka

Coalition ministers win considerable sympathy when they decry the impediments to growth and development. Consenting (gaining permission) is so often difficult, time-consuming and expensive.

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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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Wanted: reader seeks more ads in the personal classifieds

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Wanted: reader seeks more ads in the personal classifieds

Running classified ads is, like posting letters, finding a parking space and watching five-day cricket tests, a threatened activity.

The Microsoft Copilot money grab

No help requested or required ... But try saying no to Copilot. PHOTO: REUTERS

The Microsoft Copilot money grab

A new innovation has John Lapsley and millions of others utterly riled.

Come for dinner and enjoy real Wānaka fare

Come for dinner and enjoy real Wānaka fare

Sir Ian Taylor issues an invitation to dinner to Chris Bishop.

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‘Disgusted’ by Milford plan

Bowen Falls / Hineteawa at Milford Sound which, in 1925, were under threat from a proposal to...

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‘Disgusted’ by Milford plan

To the editor: Sir, I was surprised and disgusted to read in your issue of this morning a paragraph to the effect that the Minister of Public Works had approved the granting of a licence to a...

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More talk on supermarket competition

Minister of Finance Nicola Willis speaks during a Manawatū Business Chamber event last month....

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More talk on supermarket competition

If politicians talking about taking a big stick to the supermarket duopoly worked, we would have seen major change years ago.

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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: Maccas, Net Zero and recycling

Recycling is not the place for plastic lids. Photo: ODT files

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Letters to the Editor: Maccas, Net Zero and recycling

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the McDonald's application in Wānaka, the DCC's zero carbon plan, and removing lids from recycling.

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