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Age readers discuss the impact of airline travel on climate change, solar power and whether the National Party speaks for rural Australia.

Watch as the Tararua District Council makes an historic decision to introduce Māori wards. Emotions ran high as Tararua Māori celebrated an historic decision which will grant them greater participation in the decisions that affect them, and strengthen and reaffirm their partnership with the Tararua District Council. A celebratory haka, lead by Ngāti Kahungunu ki Tāmakinui-a-Rua chairman Hayden Hape, erupted as Tararua District Council voted 7-1 to establish a Māori ward for the 2022 local government elections. Hape said it was an amazing and historic affirmation of unity that would gua...

DAVID UNWIN/STUFF/Stuff Ngāti Kahungunu ki Tāmaki nui-a-Rua chairman Hayden Hape with grandson Riley Hape, 1, as Tararua District Council votes to adopt Māori wards. Emotions ran high as Tararua Māori celebrated an historic decision which will grant them greater participation in the decisions that affect them, and strengthen and reaffirm their partnership with the Tararua District Council. A celebratory haka, lead by Ngāti Kahungunu ki Tāmaki nui-a-Rua chairman Hayden Hape, erupted as Tararua District Council voted 7-1 to establish a Maori ward for the 2022 local government elections. ...

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That’s why the community will get to choose the slogan that best represents what Woodville means to them, in a public vote on the top 10 submissions chosen by a panel of public relations experts and town leaders, she said. Local historian and author Joan McIntyre said there had been several historic touchstones to Woodville’s identity. It’s a farming town, that had strong ties to the railways, horse racing and forestry. Woodville was founded as a timber town in the 1870s. It was known as The Junction in its early years because the railways and roads between Manawatū, Hawke’s Bay,...