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New child strategy raises questions

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New child strategy raises questions

Ensuring New Zealand is the best place in the world for children and young people is the vision at the heart of the government’s new Child and Youth Strategy, we are told.

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Remedy needed for bad diagnosis

The University of Waikato. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

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Remedy needed for bad diagnosis

This week we have seen yet another example from this government of its "do as I say, not do as I do" approach.

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‘The beginning of the end’ in Ukraine?

A view of destroyed materials after the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station...

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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.

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Questions remain over CEO behaviour

Dunedin City Council chief executive Sandy Graham has repeatedly described councillors as "f.....

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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

An image from the Wellington Hikoi protesting the Treaty Ammendment Bill. PHOTO: Jill Bowie

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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

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

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

Health and Disability Commissioner Morag McDowell. Photo: NZ Herald

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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

Associate Health Minister David Seymour. Photo: RNZ

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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

Restart your engines ... Donald Trump, who will once again become president of the United States....

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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?

Christopher Luxon delivers his apology to victims of abuse in state care and in the care of faith...

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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

A longstanding anomaly in New Zealand law is about to be eliminated and not before time.

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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

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

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

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

We raise the bar for jury trials at our peril.

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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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