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There were criticisms that, even with its overall majority, the Labour Government was still unable to deliver. The incoming government will also find delivering change difficult, but for different reasons, writes Rob Campbell

After an interminable comeback from injuries, Michaela Sokolich-Beatson thought she’d never wear the silver fern again - till she led the FAST5 Ferns to a netball world final, Suzanne McFadden writes from Christchurch.

The newly anointed charity says the decision is a major endorsement of the importance of public media, reports Andrew Bevin

A new business group is keen to get roading investment between Northland and Auckland happening urgently

As New Zealand First’s number three, Casey Costello could become a minister. Newsroom political editor Jo Moir looks at her path to power and talks to the high-profile men picking big things for her.

The NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry into how the nation handled the Covid-19 pandemic has already spoken to hundreds of people of all persuasions, but the work is definitely taking the hush-hush approach

The numbers of New Zealanders ageing and soon to need care are confronting, and someone needs to be planning now for how to pay for it

Bard Billot on Labour's Boy Blunder

A walkout by one nation marred an otherwise undramatic summit, but the barriers to reconciliation between Nauru and the Pacific Islands Forum are not insurmountable.

Wellington writer Jake Arthur has been judged runner-up at the 2023 Sargeson Prize for his short story "On Beauty", described by judge Vincent O'Sullivan as a story about "how and why a principled female professor tells a male student he is beautiful, and is called before an Ethics Committee"

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