Opinion

Editorial: Credit goes to pilot

OPINION: Stuck on a plane with 70 sniffling, coughing students for 10 hours, you'd just want to clear customs and get out of the airport.

Editorial: Let's keep our secrets

OPINION: Has Auckland become too big? It's a fair question, although I'm not sure we want to delve into it too deeply.

Editorial: Yes you can, no you can't

OPINION: If Prime Minister John Key was invited to host a radio talkback show for an hour today, do you think he'd do it?

Editorial: Is this just a con job?

OPINION: WHEN the Emissions Trading Scheme kicks in next year it's going to cost us more to dump rubbish.

Editorial: Time to play together

OPINION: The comment is often heard from those visiting South Canterbury golf courses: ''Where is everyone?''

Editorial: Well done, Your Majesty

OPINION: IT is easy to downplay the achievement of Queen Elizabeth II on the 60th anniversary of her monarchy.

Editorial: Marking our founding day

WAITANGI Day has been and gone, and once again, meant many things to many people.

Editorial: The trouble with tourism

OPINION: THE promotion of tourism in the Mackenzie seems to be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Editorial: Cars vs bikes, who's right?

OPINION: Cars vs cyclists, cyclists vs cars ... we'll all have an opinion.

Editorial: It's all about appearances

OPINION: WHEN you're an elected representative or public servant, appearances count.

Editorial: Why all the objections?

OPINION:

So, what exactly is the big deal about the Crafar farms sale? What do so many New Zealanders object to?

Editorial: Come on, be brave

OPINION: We've had Christmas, we've had New Year. Heavens above, we've had January already. Just 11 months till Christmas.

Editorial: Phew, that was tiring

OPINION: Imagine being a spectator at the Djokovic-Nadal Australian Open tennis final.

Editorial: Concern is still there

OPINION: It should hardly be a surprise that on the eve of schools going back, the New Zealand Educational Institute (NZEI), the union representing primary teachers, should have had something to say yesterday about National Standards.

Editorial: An abuse case a day

OPINION: We reel, don't we, when we read of the shocking child abuse cases in New Zealand.

New world is coming

OPINION: Apple is now the largest company in the world.

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Editorial: High noon stand-off

OPINION: IT'S the kind of stoush that could only really happen in a small, isolated community.

Editorial: Tick, tock on smoking ban

OPINION: DROPS of water will eventually wear away a stone.

Editorial: Share the limelight?

OPINION: Shearing – Olympic sport or not? Tricky. Unless you're a shearer.

Editorial: Last resort to close station

OPINION: A review of policing in this district as outlined last week is fair enough.

Editorial: We really are stupid

OPINION: AN actual insurance claim excuse from a motorist: "I put my foot on the brake and started to slow down, but the traffic in front was more stationary than I first thought."

Editorial: Certain smell to stories?

OPINION: THE comments about our coverage of the odour around Timaru being a media beat-up are interesting.

Editorial: The carnival does work

OPINION: IF you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.

Editorial: What's that, a duck?

OPINION: If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, well ... it's probably a duck.

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Editorial: Get set for long case

OPINION: IT was no surprise yesterday that the South Canterbury Finance fraud case was quickly adjourned at its first court call.

Seconds to terror

OPINION: Imagine how quickly the pleasure and enjoyment turned to sheer terror.

Welcome to Timaru

OPINION: Welcome to Timaru's newest residents.

Bob fixes it, a little late

OPINION: It should have been a no-brainer.

Editorial: Let's take more care

OPINION: Just how many lives could have been saved in New Zealand in the early part if this year if more care had been taken is impossible to calculate, but it's clear that there has been some unnecessary loss of life.

Editorial: Opportunity knocks again

OPINION: Sadly, it's not the first time this has been written here, but it seems that again, in at least the early months of 2012, Christchurch's loss is set to be Timaru's gain.

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