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Letters to Editor: hospital, majority, three waters

Previous engineering reports have criticised the idea of retrofitting the ageing Dunedin Hospital...

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Letters to Editor: hospital, majority, three waters

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the proposed retrofitting of Dunedin Hospital, the meaning of a majority in democracy, and the current Three Waters "fiasco".

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Driver hurt in bridge mishap

A truck in the Hook River, between Timaru and Waimate, after it ran over the side of the bridge. ...

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Driver hurt in bridge mishap

As a motor lorry owned by Price Bros, Waimate, was proceeding from Timaru the other day heavily laden with merchandise and Christmas goods, it crashed through the railing of a bridge near Mr Merry...

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Visionary leadership difficult but it is what is needed now

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Visionary leadership difficult but it is what is needed now

What a disappointment the Labour Party has been recently.

We will build what was promised

An early architectural drawing from 2020 of the proposed new Dunedin hospital campus. IMAGE:...

We will build what was promised

The new Dunedin hospital will be built, as promised, under Labour, Dr Tracey McLellan writes.

We have increased the hospital budget, and we will find a solution

Infrastructure Minister Chris Bishop (left) and Health Minister Shane Reti announce a review of...

We have increased the hospital budget, and we will find a solution

Health Minister Dr Shane Reti sets out the government’s case for its management of the new Dunedin hospital project.

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Getting it right in aged care

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Getting it right in aged care

The decision to place an elderly person in the care of others is not one taken lightly by relatives.

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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: the hospital, the ORC and the Treaty

The new ORC building. Photo: Gregor Richardson

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Letters to the Editor: the hospital, the ORC and the Treaty

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the hospital redevelopment status in Dunedin, the new ORC building, and the Treaty Principles Biil.

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A chance encounter with Sudanese Post

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A chance encounter with Sudanese Post

This may be the first ever column about the Sudanese postal service of the early 1980s, but I doubt it’s the first ever column about the way a chance encounter can steer a life.

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Bridging finance . . .

The bridge over the upper Taieri River at Paerau (then also known as The Styx), in the then...

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Bridging finance . . .

The erection of the necessary bridges over the numerous rivers and streams in the Maniototo County has cost the County Council a good deal of money in recent years.

Media ranks become ever thinner

Then prime minister Chris Hipkins addresses the media. PHOTO: THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD

Media ranks become ever thinner

The dwindling number of journalists is changing the media landscape Bryce Edwards writes.

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Dream of the student pub only just alive

The former Starters Bar. Photo: Peter McIntosh

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Dream of the student pub only just alive

Whisper it too loudly and the idea will flicker out into something that cannot be resurrected.

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Not putting their best foot forward

Children's Minister Karen Chhour says the cuts would mean more money is spent on young people....

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Not putting their best foot forward

It had to happen — and some of those opposed to the government’s boot-camp initiative have been holding their breath waiting for the moment to come.

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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: pollution, land and Doc

The Viking Orion. File photo: Stephen Jaquiery

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Letters to the Editor: pollution, land and Doc

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including pollution from cruise ships, the tribal approach to land tenure, and reviewing the way Doc runs its business.

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