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Opinion: Dairy farmers leading way
Water Accord proves dairy farmers are 'walking their environmental talk' says Alister Body
Mike Finlayson: Two weeks, two invasions
Northland has suffered two serious foreign invasions in two weeks.
Letters: Cover-up begins with an attack
Winston Peters is unhappy with communication from Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.
Vaughan Cooper: post-review, few changes
Regional ratepayers will spend $80 million on the dam to directly benefit 200 CHB farmers.
Emergency service reform critics missing point
COMMENT: Change needs to be evolutionary to give time to new initiatives to bed in.
Rachel Stewart: How to tarnish tourism glow
COMMENT: Quantity over quality will turn round to bite tourism industry.
Malcolm Dixon: Regional Council has still not apologised
There is still no sign of an apology from the regional council for its failings
Editorial: Saddle up to Ride for Road Safety
As a country with strong rural roots, it seems odd people can be so ignorant.
Make water governance local
With regional councils more often than not you pay through the nose to deal with dropkicks
Dr Tim Mackle: Farmers, gumboots and all, are doing their bit for the environment
Dr Tim Mackle reacts to the Sustainable Dairying: Water Accord report released today.
Gambling with our future
Farmers play Russian roulette with their most critical and fundamental asset, the soil.
Tim Gilbertson: It is all over for the dam and CHB
Havelock North water inquiry report and the Ruataniwha dam review were utterly predictable
Retired and still renting - our future?
COMMENT: One in six people aged 65-plus don't own their home, and that's likely to rise.
Ian Walker: A story yet to be properly told
Combined impact of Plan Change 6 and RWSS will introduce an enormous generational change.
John Carter: Another biosecurity threat
It is unthinkable that our manuka, feijoa and pohutukawa, might be blighted by myrtle rust
Myrtle rust should have been our priority
As soon as myrtle rust was discovered here the government should have been ready
Sandra Kyle: We have no reason to kill ducks
COMMENT: What pleasure can people get from shooting defenceless ducks?
Editorial: Councils should learn from failure to provide safe drinking water
Councils did not cause outbreak, but they still failed to deliver safe drinking water.
Fighting until cows come home
COMMENT: Dairy farmers and industry mouthpieces love to say they are environmental angels.
Mac Mckenna: Fire service being made worse
COMMENT: The Govt fire service reforms will entrench present problems and create new ones.
Jamie Mackay's 'From the Lip': Channeling my inner Muhammad Ali
Jamie Mackay would rather plant native trees around his duck pond than shoot ducks on it.
Select committee 'misses mark' on illegal firearms
Further restrictions on semiautomatic firearms is not the answer to the illegal possession
Hastings District Council should withdraw from urban strategy
Urban development strategy seems to have become a roadblock to development flexibility.
Water rights should be an election issue
A Waterways Act that puts all water bodies in trust for future generations would be timely
Mike Finlayson: Water under pressure
Water, one of the elements most essential to life, is now getting the attention it needs
Dom 'Furious' George: The more things change...
Dom George reflects on a year after The Farming Show's change to The Country...
Waterways report too little too late
COMMENT: People have known there is a problem with our waterways long before new report.
Opinion: flushing flow info flawed
The state of Hawke's Bay's local waterways is in crisis, writes Trevor Le-Lievre.
Tim Gilbertson: Once bitten, twice shy
Hawke's Bay Regional Council Romans unmasked by one of their own.
Bruce Bisset: Landowners, developers need carrots, sticks
Comment: One thing is sure - urban creep can't be left to "the market" to manage
Dom 'Furious' George: So many years, so many killed
Dom George reflects on Anzac Day and how war has become a game of numbers