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Health funding smoke and mirrors

Health Minister Dr Shane Reti. Photo: RNZ

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Health funding smoke and mirrors

The slanging match between Health Minister Shane Reti and the previous holder of this position Ayesha Verrall at the Health Committee in Parliament’s Scrutiny Week was not enlightening.

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Cartoonist’s view — Yeo

Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.

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Letters to the Editor: Israel, the hospital and the DCC

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

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Letters to the Editor: Israel, the hospital and the DCC

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the effect of Israel's cruelty, the war zone that is our current hospital, and could the DCC be any more inept?

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Fear and loathing at the Bennett bird table

A watchful chaffinch. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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Fear and loathing at the Bennett bird table

Fear and desire are the twin poles of the universe, the yin and yang of action, the push-me-pull-you forces of existence.

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Advantage was taken at a social gathering held last evening in Trinity Methodist schoolroom, of presenting an illuminated address to Mr and Mrs Joseph Sparrow on the occasion of their diamond wedding.

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Syria stirs again as Lebanon settles

A Hayat Tahrir al-Sham fighter stands at the entrance of Saraqeb in northwestern Idlib province,...

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Syria stirs again as Lebanon settles

One week in, the ceasefire in Lebanon seems to be holding, but everything is connected: only three days later, the civil war in Syria started up again after a de facto four-year truce.

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We all have a duty to deliver our own rights

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We all have a duty to deliver our own rights

We are discovering ever increasing rights which we imagine others must deliver for us.

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It was only a matter of time

Chickens at Hillgrove Egg Farm near Moeraki. File photo: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

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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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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: blood, glass and gingerbread men

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

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Letters to the Editor: blood, glass and gingerbread men

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the difference between blood and plasma donation, North Dunedin's glass problem, and David Seymour's snout.

All is well on Brighton Beach: I am a Lifesaver

Freshly-minted lifesavers Mark Hindle, Alexandra Dohig and Sarah Ramsay. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

All is well on Brighton Beach: I am a Lifesaver

I turned up to Moana Pool on Wednesday night and I can’t remember the last time I was so nervous.

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Legislators visit from Samoa

Faipule (lawmakers) of the Samoan parliament, the Fono, on a visit to New Zealand. — Otago...

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Legislators visit from Samoa

Eight Samoan chiefs arrived by the Tofua in Auckland yesterday, and were met by Mr J.D. Gray, Under-secretary of Internal Affairs, who welcomed them to New Zealand.