Opinion

STAR GAZING: Charles Carter willed £2240 for the building of an astronomical observatory in Wellington for public and private use.

A star-spangled legacy

Inspired by Captain Cook's voyages, 14-year-old English boy Charles Carter ran away to sea in the 1820s. The police arrested him and his father had to rescue him from jail.

Looking back on eight years

By COLIN ESPINER - The Dominion Post

OPINION: This is my 372nd column as a political reporter. It's also my last.

In search of elusive green growth

By COLIN JAMES - The Dominion Post

OPINION: Environment Minister Nick Smith aims to set up a private-public task force to explore "green growth".

When water is brown

By LINLEY BONIFACE - The Dominion Post

OPINION: Here's an extra question for those of you who enjoy this newspaper's five-minute quiz. At what stage is the amount of farming effluent polluting our lakes, rivers and streams considered "unacceptable"?

A small tragedy unnoticed in the larger death

From the Left - By CHRIS TROTTER - The Dominion Post

OPINION: It was only a brief item on the TVNZ news bulletin of March 10 ... if you ducked out to put the jug on, chances are you missed it. (I certainly missed it, and without Scott Hamilton's excellent blog Reading the Maps, the story would have passed me by entirely.)

You can tell a lot just by looking at Paul Henry

rosemary We had intended to keep our studies secret, but now that Paul Henry finds himself in a spot of bother, I feel bound, as his fellow student, to leap to his defence.

Would a Taser help?

Opinion: It never hurts to ingratiate oneself with the Speaker.

In investment limbo land

Porn hoarder worse than Brooke

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