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United Nations showdown: Baby Neve versus the fossil fool
Neve charmed people and awakened the parts of their brains that want to protect life

Gwynne Dyer: First shots in another Gulf war?
Major political implications depend on which group planned the latest Iran attack.

Steve Braunias: The Secret Diary of Derek Handley
I banked my compo cheque of $107,500 from the government without ever starting work

Reality TV -- just how stupid can it get?
We want to see tempers and tantrums and tears and all that good stuff

Your say: Those who came before Kate Sheppard
Readers have their say on women's suffrage; ratepayers' burden; and pokie problems

Terry Sarten: Business confidence down? It's crocodile tears and cries of martyrdom
Ordinary punters pay their inflated corporate salaries every time we buy a piece of cheese

Kate Stewart: We're a country of sheep but that doesn't mean we should act like one
In NZ, we have always had this habit of looking to other countries to find solutions

Nicola Patrick: Dani Lebo's words brought tears to my eyes
Dani Lebo, has allowed me to share part of her speech at Whanganui's Suffrage Day event

Chester Borrows: It may never be over, but it's never too late to tell
A decision may be made not to report, but the incident can still haunt the victim for life

Editorial: Whanganui & Partners miss mark
Local solution to need for shoe-repair service needed promotion over out-of-towners.

Frank Greenall: Down but coming round
The Terror was particularly well preserved, even down to intact cans of preserved food.

Ian McKelvie: Fighting employment change tooth and nail
This bill seeks to grow trade union membership and influence in the workplace.

Letters: Councillors' pay rates and the price of fish
Sounds like more cobblers coming from the round table at HQ.

Jay Kuten: Politics and sports, natural bedfellows
Trump's claimed patriotism rings hollow in a man who ran away from military service.

Gwynne Dyer: Trade wars - Trump's bid to break China
Will this spat between the world's two biggest economies cause a second great recession?

Letters: Living with depression discussion
For those living with depression, it's a very fine line some days.

Opinion: We need the best talent available
By paying councillors just $33,000 a year, we limit the market for suitable applicants.

Conservation Comment: Sightings mean time to act
The battle for our offshore whale habitat is not over yet. We must no be complacent.

Editorial: You ate the cake ...
Some people no longer qualify for a rates rebate ... well, they ate the cake...

Whales off our coast of Whanganui
A massive whale and her calf came close to shore on Whanganui's North Mole

Kate Stewart: Carb-free and rolling with the moral flow
I have the ideas, the creativity - I'm overflowing with it like an incontinent camel

Your say: Counselling won't cure all recidivists
Readers have their say: Killer back in jail; reviving te reo; noisy kids; mandarin lessons

Terry Sarten: Corporate slavery ... when blue sky thinking meets a paradigm shift
When blue sky thinking tangles with a paradigm shift it can mean frictionless redeployment

Editorial: Dr Chris Cresswell - The questions seem unanswerable; the act unfathomable
What could push someone with so much vitality over the edge?

Steve Braunias: Secret diary of the ABs defeat
COMMENT: It's a dark day for NZ, for men, for women, for children.

Rachel Rose: Whanganui - Reasons to be cheerful (numbers 1-20)
Reflecting on all the organizations and activities that make life here good and workable.

Opinion: All have a story on the Camino
The power of the Camino may lie in its analogy to life itself. The end becomes irrelevant.

Gwynne Dyer: Skripal affair in spotlight
Is Russia deliberately trolling the British government to show its contempt?

Editorial: Meth moral panic has cost us all
What lessons can we learn from the HNZ meth testing debacle