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It was only a matter of time

The discovery on Monday of a strain of avian flu at a poultry farm near Moeraki is highly distressing for the farm operator and extremely worrying for the industry and the New Zealand economy.

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Don’t pop the bubbles just yet

Chris Hipkins speaks to the Labour Party conference at the weekend. PHOTO: RNZ / LILLIAN HANLY

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Don’t pop the bubbles just yet

Political party conferences the year after an election defeat tend to be morose affairs, all the more so if that defeat was of historic proportions.

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Data and digital dilemma

It should be no surprise there is alarm about planned huge cuts to Health New Zealand/Te Whatu Ora’s data and digital staff.

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Letters to the Editor: protest, politics and property

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Letters to the Editor: protest, politics and property

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including a common theme of protests in New Zealand, the battle of ideologies, and the right to protect one's property.

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Through glass, muttering darkly

Broken glass on Castle St. PHOTO: GERARD O'BRIEN

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Through glass, muttering darkly

Next time you are crunching your way through shards and chunks of broken glass in the gutter in North Dunedin, or your bike gets yet another puncture, it is unlikely you will stop and think how glass has shaped our modern world.

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Measured response a dose of realism

Sir Ashley Bloomfield says it feels like we are out the other side of the pandemic. File photo:...

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Measured response a dose of realism

It is a shame that the subject of Covid-19, and more specifically New Zealand’s response to the pandemic, is so polarising.

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Gang law impact unknown

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Gang law impact unknown

There has been a long build-up to the gang patch ban which came into force last week, but it is still unclear what impact it might have on gang activity.

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Good COP(29), bad COP(29)

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Good COP(29), bad COP(29)

The world’s biggest climate-change conference has been and gone again, and the question we have to ask once more is, was it really much cop?

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Fair points don’t build a hospital

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Fair points don’t build a hospital

There was more disappointment for the South on the front page of the Otago Daily Times yesterday as Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said the government was immovable on its pledge to not spend more than $1.9 billion on the new Dunedin hospital.

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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

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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

Chris Bishop says the RMA was well-intentioned but had not worked. Photo: RNZ

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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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