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Testing regime needs to add up
There are few things school-aged children like less than tests, so that is one stakeholder group which will be far from pleased with the government’s announcement this week .
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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: Kaikorai, the university and tourism
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Letters to the Editor: Kaikorai, the university and tourism
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including the water quality in the Kaikorai stream, the uni's bureaucratic incompetence, and is tourism going to shrink?
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Fizzing with anger and lancing boils of discontent
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Fizzing with anger and lancing boils of discontent
When the Old School Mate from Feilding phoned to tell me she was looking for a protest, I got it.
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Republic’s second president
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Republic’s second president
Berlin, May 12: Hindenburg took the oath to the Republican Constitution in the Reichstag standing at a table covered with the Republican flag.
Thinking about sentencing consequences
Thinking about sentencing consequences
Scrapping shorter prison sentences will not make New Zealanders safer, Fairleigh Gilmour writes.
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Disrespectful consultation
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Disrespectful consultation
That it occurred once was surprising, and that it happened twice was even more so.
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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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Winter in Central proof that we are not a classless society
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Winter in Central proof that we are not a classless society
It seems that we live in a class-riddled society.
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Letters to the Editor: pay equity, student housing, cycling trail
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Letters to the Editor: pay equity, student housing, cycling trail
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including pay equity, student housing and not everyone embracing cycling trail.
A new pope represents fresh hope
A new pope represents fresh hope
Timothy O'Farrell is far from Rome, but optimistic about Pope Leo XIV.
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Crayfish as a trial
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Crayfish as a trial
It seems that the crayfish are a great nuisance to the fishermen of the Nugget Bay fleet, as they have a nasty habit of nibbling the bait off the groper hooks, when the boats are at work off the...
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Jury out on abuse redress
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Jury out on abuse redress
Any government faced with responding to the Royal Commission’s Report into Historical Abuse in State Care and in the Care of Faith-based Institutions would find it difficult.
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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: DCC, Greens and the hospital
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Letters to the Editor: DCC, Greens and the hospital
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including what the DCC needs to focus on, a case of Green bashing, and the coalition's slash and burn with our hospital.
Opinion: Lost for words when describing a pillock
Lost for words when having to describe a pillock
Sir Ian Taylor discusses rushed legislation, forgotten women and the triumphant return of the word "pillock".
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India and Israel travel on parallel tracks
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India and Israel travel on parallel tracks
There is a striking parallel between the 20-month war in the Gaza Strip and the week-old not-yet-war between India and Pakistan.
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Who will be prime minister?
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Who will be prime minister?
Discussing the political situation created by the Prime Minister’s death, the Auckland Star remarks that Downie Stewart’s indifferent health will probably prevent him taking the position of Leader,...
Letters to the Editor: Student digs, Kiwi pioneer, Lake Monowai
Letters to the Editor: Student digs, Kiwi pioneer, Lake Monowai
Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including student quarter, a pioneering Kiwi and the state of Lake Monowai.
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Cartoonist's view - Yeo
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Cartoonist's view - Yeo
Today's cartoon from Shaun Yeo.