Can new minister solve hospital challenges?
Can new minister solve hospital challenges?
New Health Minister Simeon Brown was repeatedly hailed by Prime Minister Christopher Luxon yesterday as being someone who gets things done.
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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: TikTok, rates and the stadium
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Letters to the Editor: TikTok, rates and the stadium
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including social media conspiracies, clarity around the ORC building, and the financial future of our stadium.
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Make the southern voice heard
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Make the southern voice heard
In Douglas Adams’ science fiction satire The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy the planet Earth is summarised by a single word in the titular compendium of facts about the universe: ...
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Vintage tonnage a weighty modern day headache
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Vintage tonnage a weighty modern day headache
The name is brilliant: "vintage tonnage".
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When the All Blacks met the King
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When the All Blacks met the King
London, December 14: The New Zealanders continued their successful tour yesterday by defeating the Combined Services comfortably by 25 points to 3.
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No, I’m not stirring at all, I am merely asking the question
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No, I’m not stirring at all, I am merely asking the question
I have an acquaintance that loves to stir.
Letters to the Editor: the Treaty, recycling and a pint
Letters to the Editor: the Treaty, recycling and a pint
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including a record response for Treaty Principles Bill submissions, kudos to the council, and where to find a decent pint.
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Subdued ceasefire celebrations
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Subdued ceasefire celebrations
Ceasefire? What ceasefire?
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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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Politics concerning new hospital the art of the possible
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Politics concerning new hospital the art of the possible
In the third of a three-part series, Pete Hodgson ponders where to next for the new hospital project.
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Ideology out, safety and welfare the issue
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Ideology out, safety and welfare the issue
Sometimes when policies are embraced, they make you feel uneasy. Later, those instincts can be correct, or at least partly so.
Within living memory . . .
Within living memory . . .
Dunedin artist Ralph Hotere is setting up an exhibition with a difference — a burnt-out fishing boat — in the Sargood Wing of the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.
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Fatal crash near Gore
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Fatal crash near Gore
A fatal motor car accident in the Southland district during this weekend occurred on the Balfour Road, near Gore, about half-past 5, when a man named Gordon D. Watson, a law...
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Trading in a challenging world
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Trading in a challenging world
New Zealand has just ticked off one more trade agreement.
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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 Editor: film, DOC, worms
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Letters to Editor: film, DOC, worms
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the New Zealand film industry, national parks and the status of the velvet worm in Dunedin.
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Horse auction attracts crowds
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Horse auction attracts crowds
The dispersal sale of the Elderslie stud and Burnside stud took place in fine weather, and there was a fairly large attendance, including visitors from Australia.
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Hoping for the best until the worst happens doesn’t work
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Hoping for the best until the worst happens doesn’t work
It is nearly 60 years since American author Joan Didion wrote about Los Angeles' "weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse".
New hospital actions and inactions O
New hospital actions and inactions O
In the second of a three-part series, Pete Hodgson argues that the new Dunedin hospital project needs a culture change.