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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

The new Dunedin hospital site. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

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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

Puberty blocker pills. PHOTO: GETTY IMAGES

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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

Scene of a fatal road accident at Kingston Crossing, between Balfour and Riversdale,&nbsp...

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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

Export signals look more hopeful for beef than sheepmeat. PHOTO: TIM CRONSHAW

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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

Actors James Abbott and Florence Pugh on set of the Netflex series East of Eden being filmed in...

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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

Sale in progress at Mr J.F. Reid’s Waitaki Valley stud farm Burnside. — Otago Witness, 27.1.1925...

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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

Firefighters in Altadena, California. PHOTO: TNS

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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

The new Dunedin hospital site office. PHOTO: GERARD O’BRIEN

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.

On this Jones and I agree — communication between all is critical

Te Pāti Māori Party co-founder Dame Tariana Turia in 2009. PHOTO: NZPA

On this Jones and I agree — communication between all is critical

The wisdom of Dame Tariana Turia was absent in a key decision at her tangi, Ian Taylor writes.

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Standing up for wildlife

A sea lion — seen dead on Tautuku Beach yesterday — is believed to have been tormented by people...

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Standing up for wildlife

Summertime, regardless of the weather, is a time for many New Zealanders to reacquaint themselves with the outdoors.

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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 Bible, Palestine and CO₂

Buildings lie in ruins in North Gaza. PHOTO: REUTERS

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Letters to the Editor: the Bible, Palestine and CO₂

Today's Letters to the Editor from readers cover topics including interpreting the Bible, the need to grant humanitarian visas to Palestinians, and has CO₂ left us in deep schtuk?

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A functional fix to stand the test of time

The Bennett dunny door. PHOTO: JOE BENNETT

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A functional fix to stand the test of time

There's a lavatory — or rather, according to your personal euphemism-quotient preference, a toilet, W.C., cloakroom, bathroom, restroom, powder room — in my garage.

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Fruit goes off

Passengers mill around a fruit wagon that partly derailed on the Otago Central railway line,...

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Fruit goes off

The passengers on the Central Otago train to Dunedin had a somewhat disquieting experience when the fruit vans, which were coupled next to the locomotive, became derailed.

Hospital lesson one: delay costs

In the first of a three-part series, Pete Hodgson asks what can be learnt from the new Dunedin hospital debacle?

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