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Funding is like human rights, not a guarantee
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Internal Affairs Minister Brooke van Velden wants the Wellsford volunteer fire brigade to return a $2,500 donation from the local chapter of the Head Hunters motorcycle gang.
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Glorious Friday dawn
Photo: Stephen Jaquiery
Cyclists commute to work yesterday morning past Burkes as nature puts on a colourful light show above Otago Harbour.
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Debacle for Simmonds avoidable
Penny Simmonds responds to complaints about changes to disability funding policy. PHOTO: PARLIAMENT TV
It is something which befalls every new government, and every new Cabinet minister lives in dread it will be them — being the first minister on whose watch something goes catastrophically wrong.
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Scott Technology CFO resigns same week as CEO
Scott Technology in Kaikorai Valley Rd. Photo: Peter McIntosh.
Scott Technology chairman Stuart McLauchlan says the resignation of the company’s chief financial officer in the same week as its chief executive is an "unfortunate coincidence".
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Two MTF directors re-elected
MTF Finance has re-elected two of its directors for another term.
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CEO proud of port’s 40% boost in profits
The Port Otago container terminal in Port Chalmers. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON
Port Otago chief executive Kevin Winders says he is "very proud" of his company’s contribution to Otago after seeing a 40% boost in profits.
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Point of complaint missed, ratepayer says
A Stewart Island/Rakiura ratepayer who contested a 500% increase to his rates says the council has misunderstood the crux of his fiery letter.
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Appeal to a higher authority
Byron Coll ventures into the bush as struggling father Hugh, in The Mountain. Photos: Madman
A new film looks to Mt Taranaki for answers.
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Sitting ducks for an early demise
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Don’t just sit there, recommends Daniel Bailey.
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Babies really do smell better than teenagers
A researcher uses gas chromatography-olfactometry to analyse odour-active compounds. Photo: Nicole Kornbausch
Babies smell better than teenagers and now researchers have discovered some of the reasons.
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Spot the eclipse
This month’s full moon occurs in the constellation of Virgo.
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Planet gobblers
At least one in a dozen stars show evidence of planetary ingestion according to a paper published in Nature.
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Rekindling an ancient flame
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Over the summer holidays, I climbed a mountain.
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Dealing with those garden monsters
Sublime zucchini-flour chocolate cake, a seriously delicious way to use your burgeoning crop. Photo: Hilary Rowley
It is the season of the annual zucchini tsunami, so I have found a seriously delicious way to use a whole shipload of these prolific beasts.
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Things hotting up
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A report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) shows that we smashed previous records for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, Antarctic sea ice cover and our glaciers retreating in 2023.
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Woman jailed for disrespecting judge
Megan Gordon (facing camera) outside the Nelson District Court last year. Photo: Tracy Neal
A woman who showed utter disrespect for a judge - calling her a liar, using her first name and speaking over her during a defended hearing - has been sent to prison to think about her actions.
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Dozens of opposition members arrested in India
Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal being driven away by police. Photo: Getty Images
Dozens of members of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) have been detained by police in New Delhi as they gathered in protest against the arrest of their leader for graft, weeks before India holds general elections.
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