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A little boy goes missing at Muriwai Beach and a fast ride through small-town forestry country, cyclone damage, gangs and meth in the bestselling NZ books this holiday weekend, plus win a book about understanding how children's brains work.

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It’s Matariki, and growth may be waxing but inflation is in the ascendant

While the central bank looks for economic growth in the stars, new OECD data reveals New Zealanders' after-inflation wages plummeted 6.4 percent. Jonathan Milne reports.

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New fuel storage buys NZ an insurance policy before the storm

New Zealand is investing in greater fuel resilience with expanded fuel storage designed to protect against future supply disruptions.

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Restaurateur selling Downlow Burger franchises to vulnerable migrants, liquidator states

One migrant co-owner lost 11 years of savings after buying a Ponsonby store that proved commercially unviable within months. Alice Peacock reports

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Big spending isn’t ‘wasteful spending’ when it’s at Wayne Brown’s mayoral office

Expenditure records show the mayor’s office spent twice as much in one year as his predecessor Phil Goff, heavily utilising consultants for strategic advice. Todd Niall reports.

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Books of the Week: Cyclone damage, and something bad in Fairlie

Two excellent new crime novels include one about a cop who goes to the supermarket for brown rice and vegetables and comes home with a bottle of Scotch and a bag of salt and vinegar chips.

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Killer bird flu now just a short flight away from NZ

Today from The Detail: The bird flu has landed in Australia, and there are fears it's now ready for take-off to New Zealand

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From wedding dress to weights, Silver Fern’s daughter lifts her way to Glasgow

After starting weightlifting at 30, New Zealander Tu'i-Alofa Patolo-Tipene targets a Commonwealth Games medal after breaking an Oceania record

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Beating back the illicit tobacco trade

Today from The Detail: Some experts blame excessive excise tax for making legal cigarettes so expensive it's opened the door for illicit tobacco

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Missing persons report

The premise of a new novel is every parent's nightmare.

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Why large language models are an economic dead end

Comment from Otago University: Dr Olivier Jutel deconstructs the generative AI hype, exposing the unsustainable economics, cooked corporate numbers, and tech-stock over-allocation

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China risks exploding Pacific goodwill in one fell swoop of a nuclear-capable missile

“This launch is not consistent with regional stability.” Winston Peters hits out at Beijing's submarine-launched JL-3 missile test.

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Wrongfully accused, wrongfully convicted and still waiting for justice

Comment: As the parent of children with brittle bone disease, former Race Relations and Human Rights Commissioner Joris de Bres became an advocate for a family torn apart by accusations of abuse.

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It’s time doctors stopped acting as detectives

Comment: Physicians blurring the line between medicine and law enforcement without scientifically validated tools is failing NZ families, writes Dr Chris Brook.

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Light pollution erasing NZ’s dark skies at Matariki

Comment from Victoria University: Estimates show 97% of NZers live under light-polluted skies, disrupting nocturnal wildlife and erasing our view of the stars

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After a turbulent year at Netball NZ, the future looks shaky

Today from The Detail: The ball is in Netball New Zealand's court as players and staff wait for word on the future of the ANZ Premiership

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A brief history of Grey Lynn junkies

First-hand accounts of living with the rock band Dragon in 1970s Grey Lynn and the subsequent spiral into heroin addiction.

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An Ode to .. Qiulae Wong

NZ's ode laureate Victor Billot returns with lines in honour of the Opportunity Party leader

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‘If we think it’s abuse, it’s abuse’

NZ paediatricians are diagnosing abuse based on literature and data considered the ‘gold standard’ – but there actually is no gold standard, a Harvard-trained radiologist tells a Dunedin court.

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New disability bill a ‘cruel’ override of rights, carers say

Today from The Detail: The Government says it's protecting the future of disability support, while critics say it's taking away workers' rights and letting itself off the hook

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Health NZ’s silence on child abuse misdiagnoses

For almost three years, Newsroom’s investigations team has been trying to get answers from Health NZ and ministers on what now appears to be a serious issue with the misdiagnosis of non-accidental injury in infants. Their questions have gone nowhere.

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Super rugby hat-trick hero: ‘Just loving one another is my vibe’

First, the Hurricanes Poua women's super rugby team achieve victory after 840 days, then they beat the champion Blues - with one player scoring thrice.

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Clinging to hope when your world is kicked out from under you

Comment: What began as a grandmother's fight to help her daughter get back custody of her twins has become a case of medical negligence and broken systems. She tells Newsroom her story.

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What is going on at Starship’s child protection unit?

For decades, a small group of specialists at Starship Hospital’s child protection unit have played a central role in some of NZ’s most serious physical child abuse cases. What happens if those findings are wrong?

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The Sunday poem: Blue Sky Situation Emerging, by Owen Marshall

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