You'd be excused for thinking I had a vested interest in seeing fewer police on the streets given the currency of criminal proceedings

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DAME Tariana Turia is threatening to march on Parliament in protest against Children, Young Persons and Families legislation she

THE WRITER OF THE BELOW COLUMN HEREBY GRANTS YOU HER EXCLUSIVE PERMISSION TO READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE. You lucky reader, you! My

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POTUS makes a big call ... (Ring ring) Bill: "Hello, Bill here." POTUS: "Clinton?" Bill: "No, English." POTUS: "Theresa May?

Helen Clark stayed away from Waitangi. Back in 2001. It was good, too ... She'd been upset by Titewhai Harawira the year before

I have been writing for Conservation Comment now for 10 years from when the articles first started in the Wanganui Chronicle. So

Has surname generation stagnated? When did it stop? Did someone draw a line some time ago and decide that we will have no more

It didn't matter who became the next President of the Nation of Darkness (POTNOD) ... nothing will change very fast. The toxic food

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Truth on Treaty It is way past time we stopped feuding among ourselves and stood together as a nation. The latest hi-jinks at Waitangi

A CHANGE is as good as a rest they say - though change can come with a twinge of regret. A switch of news rounds means I will now

"Without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated and very likely destroyed," wrote former general Michael

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MONDAY I've refused to change my style since I was appointed interim prime minister. I shoot from the hip and tell it like it is. As

I love how little old New Zealand has a reputation for world-class wines. Lately, however, one could be mistaken for thinking we

By Brit Bunkley MEDIA commentator Professor Robert W. McChesney wrote in 2001 that "the rulers of New Zealand's media system could

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THE Chronicle has uncovered an exclusive excerpt from a conversation in the Oval Office, thanks to the services of a Russian hacker.... Vice

By David Bennett THERE is an old Chinese proverb which suggests that it's good to live in "interesting times" ... current events

Israel situation I like recent comments in the Wanganui Chronicle. I have little confidence in Murray McCully. New Zealand has nothing

I MUST say I have really enjoyed getting out and about in the Rangitikei and the greater Manawatu-Whanganui region over the past month

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AT A CONCERT in London in March 2003, as the Bush Administration prepared to invade Iraq in what would prove to be America's greatest

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For obvious reasons, the Whanganui Musicians Club skips the first first-Friday-of-the-month of the year - but we are all set to go