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Speaking te reo would bind us together
Marcel Currin writes: Waitangi Day, our treasured national day off work. What is it all about, really?
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Editorial: Spider find spooks me
I wouldn't consider myself arachnophobic, but I couldn't help but shudder at news a redback spider had been found in Rotorua, writes Kim Gillespie.
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Marcel Currin: Roar of the wild is too noisy
I spent a large part of the long weekend listening to drunken idiots. I assume they were drunk. I would be concerned if they weren't, writes Marcel Currin.
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Editorial: Sevens appeal is on the rise
The New Zealand Women's Sevens team completed another successful training camp at Mount Maunganui this week with three Bay of Plenty players in the mix.
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Marcel Currin: Where's Superman when you need him?
Climate change is gathering momentum. So what? Nobody cares. Not really. Not enough to adjust our modern fuel-gobbling society in any real, tangible way.
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Editorial: Case to probe Kiwi's plight
The Prime Minister needs to show compassion towards the Whanganui man arrested for drug trafficking in Indonesia If he does have mental-health issues and at least look into the case.