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Which wannabe Whanganui MP was a school lunch monitor?
Which wannabe Whanganui MP was a school lunch monitor

Gwynne Dyer: Space projects' high ambition
Curmudgeon of the Year may emerge before the end of December

Editorial: Whanganui gets the 'Jacinda effect' but is it enough?
Jacinda draws a crowd and closes a pharmacy

Conservation comment: The greenest city in the world
Conservation comment with Rachel Rose.

Review: Little Shop of Horrors
A cult classic rampages on a three week run with Little Shop of Horrors at Amdram Theatre.

Terry Sarten: Songsmiths join the literary set
Literary festival finally says 'songwriting is literary art'

Rachel Rose: Nalini measures 'success' in human terms
Outstanding scholar turns her back on conventional success and heads somewhere else ...

Steve Braunias: Secret diary of campaign
COMMENT: It would be a very bad look if I tried crawling out of the hole.

Editorial: Managing the fallout of family disintegration
Locals chip in where government fails to fund vital social services

Gwynne Dyer: The world's 'most persecuted minority'
Stateless Rohingyas driven from their homes

Cheap politicking unfair on farmers
Politicians blame water pollution on farmers, despite their best efforts to combat it.

Russell Bell: Recipe for success in business the same as in sport
Business Zen: Recipe for success in business the same as in sport.

Steve Baron: How to cast vote that really counts
Some of you may remember a very dear friend of mine, Terry Heffernan.

Editorial: Right to help gangs on enrol
Should the Electoral Commission be helping gang members enrol to vote?

Have your say: Candidate order is crucial
Readers' letters -- Random names; Baron barrage; Short-term gain; Well done council

Take mining claims with a grain of silt
The case for seabed mining off the Patea coast is a shaky one

Fred Frederikse: Natural disaster gets helping hand from man
The Houston flooding disaster is a perfect storm of economics, population and land use.

Editorial: Whanganui gets in on the lolly scramble
Whanganui needs some lollies from the election scramble

Terry Sarten: Sniffing out the dazed and confused psychology of the bug-ridden
Sniffle, sniffle! You may try to deny it ... but, boy, you're sick

Kate Stewart: Election quiz - Where's the money coming from?
Crunch the numbers election quiz -- could you be a finance minister?