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Dunedin Mayor Jules Radich was heckled and city councillor Lee Vandervis received a warm reception at a public meeting last night calling for a 17...

Cutting costs to suit their cloth was leaving councils down to their "skimpies", Central Otago Mayor Tim Cadogan said last week as savings were...

Both the US Democrats and NZ Labour need to take hard looks at themselves. Failure is not inevitable. But there is now only one English-speaking centre-left democracy left in the world: that is the state of where we are now. 

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The Council of Trade Unions has completed its annual survey of workers and the mood is grim.

Members of the anti-vax group turned up in large numbers to last month's Groundswell-organised protest - the farmer group says there's some membership crossover but no formal links.

Two prominent Voices for Freedom spokespeople have been elected to local body positions, in an election that otherwise saw a widespread rejection of candidates who advanced false claims and conspiracy theories.

"No, youre not entitled to a free holiday," commented one Mumsnet user.

Sheffield was one of eight John Lewis branches the company decided not to reopen post-lockdown last month. It insists the department store was financially challenged even before coronavirus and bosses are consulting on permanent closure. Almost 25,000 people have signed a petition to save the shop, formerly Cole Brothers, which was established in 1847.  It employs 299 staff. Further petitions have been launched to save stores that closed this month in Aberdeen, Peterborough, Watford and York, ...