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Animal Farm at 80: why the animals really matter in Orwell’s parable about communism

15 August 2025

Orwell wrote his short, shocking novel at a time when it was considered scientifically inadmissible for animals to be granted thoughts or even feelings.

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Friday essay: who was Anne Frank?
	15 Aug: Anne Frank has come to symbolise many things. Can we ‘restore her as a human being’?... more

Hopes Health New Zealand will boost staffing at Christchurch Hospital's Trauma Admitting Service, on the back of a study in today's New Zealand Medical Journal
	15 Aug: Hopes Health New Zealand will boost staffing at Christchurch Hospital's Trauma Admitting Service, on the back of a study in today's New Zealand Medical Journal... more

State Highway 5 is closed south of Rotorua, after a petrol tanker rolled in the Whakarewarewa area, leaving one person dead
	15 Aug: State Highway 5 is closed south of Rotorua, after a petrol tanker rolled in the Whakarewarewa area, leaving one person dead... more

An Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Perth has been diverted to Sydney
	14 Aug: An Air New Zealand flight from Auckland to Perth has been diverted to Sydney... more

A couple's been charged with defrauding a person over two years - with bogus cancer treatment bills to the tune of more than one-million-dollars
	14 Aug: A couple's been charged with defrauding a person over two years - with bogus cancer treatment bills to the tune of more than one-million-dollars... more

A man's been found guilty of murdering two people at a 21st birthday in Gisborne - in March last year
	14 Aug: A man's been found guilty of murdering two people at a 21st birthday in Gisborne - in March last year... more

Multiple investigations - after a police officer shot two people, one fatally, in Christchurch last night
	14 Aug: Multiple investigations - after a police officer shot two people, one fatally, in Christchurch last night... more

An opportunity for the taking for Wellington Phoenix women's coach Bev Priestman amid Auckland FC's stalled plans for a team to join the women's A-League
	14 Aug: An opportunity for the taking for Wellington Phoenix women's coach Bev Priestman amid Auckland FC's stalled plans for a team to join the women's A-League... more

A pedestrian's seriously injured after being hit by a truck southeast of Matamata, in Waikato
	14 Aug: A pedestrian's seriously injured after being hit by a truck southeast of Matamata, in Waikato... more

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