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Medical professionals welcomed solutions from both parties around relieving healthcare workforce woes, but warned new medical students could face specialist training shortages

This week on the Raw Politics podcast: Can the Greens save Labour and the left bloc between now and the election, and Mr Hipkins goes to Vilnius and Brussels

As a multimillion dollar project to protect one of the most flood-prone towns in the country moves ahead, an engineering review suggests a rethink is needed.

The Government is chipping in an initial $575,000 to investigate if the decommissioned Marsden Point refinery can be used to make green hydrogen for synthetic jet fuel – but the energy-intensive process would have to give back to NZ's electricity grid. Jonathan Milne reports.

While the hype around deep-sea mining is real, there may be unintended consequences, writes Eleonore Lebre.

In her first novel in 10 years, Emily Perkins interrogates "your perfect Chelsea Winter life"

While people are more concerned about climate change in New Zealand than elsewhere, they are less willing to take the most effective actions to fight it.

Avoiding being dragged into a potential new Cold War in the Indo-Pacific remains a strategic priority in Wellington, writes Dr Nicholas Ross Smith

Aaron Smale reports on how artificial intelligence may provide a way for Māori to learn the dialects of their grandparents.