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• Captivating look at law contribution

  THE FUTURES OF DEMOCRACY, LAW AND GOVERNMENT

• The price of privilege

  My daughter has left home. I didn’t expect the change to hit me like a freight train, but it did. She has left to take on her university adventure. Logically, I was fine, but I will confess, I spent days in tears, and anyone who knows me, knows that is actually so unlike me.

• Alpaca drama ingenious

  STAR GAZERS

• HIGHS NOT UNEXPECTED

• Tomatoes to savourFried tomatoes with coriander mayonnaise Tomato and carrot soup

  Nigel Slater’s summer tomato recipes aim to to enrich the soul.

• Tokimonsta. Eternal Reverie. ★★★★

• Farewell to Orion’s colours

  The southern hemisphere autumn equinox occurs at 10.01pm on Thursday (March 20). One of the signs of the changing season is the gradual disappearance of Orion after sunset. This glorious constellation has graced our evening skies for months, but as autumn takes hold, it sets earlier each night, soon to be lost in twilight’s glow.

• Pain inside our bodies

  Kenny D. Stone, Andersons Bay, Dunedin, asked: How do we sense pain from our inner organs, such as a kidney stone dislodged in the ureter?

• A trade-off for no benefit

  We need not sacrifice water quality to grow vegetables.

• Sasami. Blood on the Silver Screen. ★★★

Featured documents

• Our LAST best chance

  On Monday, the Government reveals its Emissions Reduction Plan — New Zealand’s first serious step to help avert global climate disaster. Bruce Munro asks whether it will be enough to transform our economy and society in just eight years and looks around for those already getting on with it....

• Granddad’s part in Hitler’s downfall

  A Hollywood movie about a desperate attempt to fool Hitler features Rear-Admiral John Godfrey, head of the British Naval Intelligence Division. Some details in the film are not accurate, Rachel Gibb, of Dunedin, tells Bruce Munro. Gibb should know — Admiral Godfrey was not only the abrasive...

• A first step towards controlled change

  We now have a plan of action to guide our climate change response. But is it any good? Members of the University of Otago’s He Kaupapa Hononga climate change research network run the ruler over it....

• Chapterandverse

  It is one of the very biggest stories in New Zealand rock’n’roll history, and Mike Houlahan was there to record it. As it writes its final chapter, he recalls its twists and turns....

• Granddad’s part in Hitler’s downfall

  A Hollywood movie about a desperate attempt to fool Hitler features Rear-Admiral John Godfrey, head of the British Naval Intelligence Division. Some details in the film are not accurate, Rachel Gibb, of Dunedin, tells Bruce Munro. Gibb should know — Admiral Godfrey was not only the abrasive...

• A contested death

  Te Wētere and the Rev. John Whiteley crossed paths during the New Zealand Wars, but beyond that much is unclear, Anaru Eketone writes in this essay from a new book....

• THE RIVER’S TURN

  In Central Otago, a river’s health is being weighed against the demands of irrigation. Mary Williams investigates the complex, dry, catchment of the Manuherikia river — and the struggle to restore it....

• GENOCIDE NEXT DOOR

  Jonathan Glazer’s audacious new film about the family life of Auschwitz’s commandant was 10 years in the making. He tells Sean O’Hagan how it was made — and the importance of finding light in the darkness....

• Making the list

  Just six novels remain in contention for the world’s most prestigious literary award — The Booker Prize — which will be awarded next week. The Otago Daily Times’ fiction faction cast their eye over this year’s finalists....

• NULL

  Three Waters is the largest local government reform in decades. But in many minds, the rollout has been muddled and mired in controversy. To ‘‘unmuddy’’ Three Waters, three people near to the action speak off-the-record, giving Bruce Munro their take on the reason for the reforms, whether they are...