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Short-term thinking holding back NZ's regions

The country needs to move past politics and parochial interests if we are to get our remoter regions thriving

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Don't let politicians off the hook with talk of 'unprecedented' events

Why didn’t we learn from the Hawkes Bay earthquake, where the first fatalities died from falling masonry, a deadly feature of the tragic events on February 22, 2011?

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Chiding in plain sight

Inside the Taxpayers’ Union’s in-your-face push for change. Part 1 of a 2 part series.

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Mosgiel coal miner's son who played trumpet

The life and death of a great trumpet player in 19 lines

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Ditching the dye

Grey hair and wrinkles are finally becoming something to celebrate.

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Māori title to marine areas could become 'easier'

A senior court finds a section of the Marine and Coastal Areas Act could have ended up shutting many Māori out from gaining customary title, rather than enabling their legal rights.

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'Devastated': Supie's Sarah Balle and her battle with the brands

The Grocery Commissioner is warning influential suppliers that their 'undesirable behaviour' could force him to impose a new wholesale code of conduct, as independent retailer Supie goes bust owing $3 million. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Oliver Hartwich: Reclaiming democracy in Poland

Poland’s opposition also won the election, even though it is taking a long time to change the government. But that change, when it finally happens, will be a change for the better, writes Dr Oliver Hartwich

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The mean streets of Tauranga

We cross live to one of the capitals of organised crime in New Zealand

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The gaming games

Esports players say their sport is more than just time on the couch with a joystick – we have a national team, and it’s heading to global games at the end of the year.

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Three Waters assets to move to new council-owned companies

National wants to protect ratepayers from soaring bills by moving the drinking water, wastewater and some stormwater assets off council balance sheets – while avoiding compulsion or co-governance. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Sharemarket on course for third successive losing month

Business & investing – NZ sharemarket slides to 15-month low as Port of Tauranga warns of slumping container volumes, reports Andrew Patterson

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Financial mentors plead against softer lending regulations

The incoming National-led government plans to do away with parts of the Consumer Finance Act it believes are stifling access to credit, reports Andrew Bevin

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For Luxon, the slogans are best put aside with the banners and signs

Slogans may win funding, even elections, but they don't help doing things which are not realistic. The incoming government should take a breath, and start with a massive, eyes open, burden-sharing social response to the climate crisis, writes Rob Campbell

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A new-look government

Ahead of special votes being delivered, political editor Jo Moir looks at the shape of the executive and where the problem areas lie

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An Ode to .. Mark 'make-up' Mitchell

Bard Billot on a blue-party boofhead

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Pat Baskett: It's deadly, so why aren't we taking it seriously?

Heat kills more people than cold or floods, yet nothing in the new government’s policies suggest anything other than marginal commitment help keep the heat down, writes Pat Baskett

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Another DoC track bites the dust

Conservation advocate Gerry McSweeney is lamenting DoC’s abandonment of yet another walking track on the West Coast.

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Winston Peters flexes his muscles in a quiet week

Winston Peters achieved two things with his controversial social media post this week. He threw some meat to a cohort of voters that secured his return to Parliament and backed both National and Act’s leaders into a corner.

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The Week in Detail: Pasifika MPs, 95bFM, and comic books

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

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ChatGPT is not a passing fad, let's get it to work for us, not against us

Teachers should use ChatGPT and generative AI to develop critical literacy, partly to make students realise that algorithmic decision making isn’t necessarily objective, argues Jack Webster

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Short story: Stars of Hood Street, by Marama Salsano

"Yet another boozy Friday night on Hood Street in Kirikiriroa…"

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Long Read: The MethaneSAT saga

By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest 29 million dollars in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan than will not improve New Zealand’s methane estimates?

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Government grabs more power in Ruapehu liquidation

MBIE has bought up $13m ANZ debt and appointed receivers from Calibre Partners to advance a sale of the ski fields, reports Andrew Bevin.

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Works agency wins early skirmish in $440m court threat to Crown balance sheet

Incoming ministers will be watching closely as the new so-called 'Ministry of Works' defends the biggest single legal liability on Crown books, writes Jonathan Milne.

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