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Yes to more social housing, but housing quality would be even better

Cooperative housing is in its infancy in Aotearoa, but if it were tweaked for social housing tenants it may help get them out of state housing and enable their home-ownership aspirations

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Long Read: The food lobby in Aotearoa

By Guyon Espiner: How the food industry throws its weight – and its money – around in sport, politics, nutrition, and education.

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New Zealand delights in Warriors’ NRL success after years of rugby league neglect

The flipside to the love fest around the team’s run to the finals is why it took so long for the game to realise its enormous potential in Aotearoa

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VOTE2023: Q&A with Winston Peters

The NZ First leader talks trade and constitutional arrangements, foreign affairs and export dependency, his 'anti-nonsense' stance on culture wars and the cost of living in Aotearoa.

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Expat NZ voters see the sky hasn't fallen back home

For overseas voters, the deciding issues won't be crime or the cost of living crisis. Distance gives us a perspective about the modern values NZ has embraced – yet risks casting aside.

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Sustainability is often an afterthought in space exploration – that needs to change as the industry grows

Aotearoa New Zealand is the latest country to enter the expanding and competitive international space market.

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Reconfiguring the public-private partnership model to work for NZ infrastructure

Key to any pre-election conversations on large infrastructure projects in Aotearoa is a discussion on the important role of private financing, an open-minded evaluation of the public-private partnership model, and suggestions for how we might improve it | Content Partnership

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Haere rā football - you stole my heart

Spain are through to the FIFA Women’s World Cup final for the first time after a thriller last match in Aotearoa - the tournament’s success a revelation for Suzanne McFadden.

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Tell us: has your love of New Zealand birds turned you against cat ownership?

We’d like to hear from New Zealanders whose concern for native birdlife has made them reconsider the future of cats in Aotearoa

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Carole de Colville: Trailblazer for women TV presenters

Carole de Colville, one of the first women to work as a field reporter in national current affairs television in Aotearoa New Zealand, died recently in Australia. Her colleague and friend from that time, journalist Alison Parr, remembers her impact.

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Curriculum changes must tackle the lifelong consequences of NZ’s alarming literacy and numeracy declines

Literacy and numeracy are under the spotlight as Aotearoa New Zealand grapples with how to improve student performance in these basic skills.

The Conversation

Three directions our cities could take

Politicians need to reimagine our cities by reclaiming city centres and building strong urban communities for tenants instead of more suburban development, argue Dr David Jenkins and Eileen Corcoran.

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NZ music schools under threat: we need a better measure of their worth than money

Funding for the arts and tertiary education in Aotearoa New Zealand has long been insufficient. Run the two together, as is happening this year, and we find ourselves at a precarious junction.

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Exotic tree crops established for carbon credits 'morally corrupt'

There is no evidence exotic tree monocultures will continue to sequester CO2 at high rates beyond the first few decades of their life, argues David Norton

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In underfunding universities, we have so much to lose

The unprecedented scale of the downsizing of our universities will undercut the future prosperity and democratic values of Aotearoa. Catherine Abou-Nemeh looks at the consequences.

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Starved of funds and vision, struggling universities put NZ’s entire research strategy at risk

The crisis in Aotearoa New Zealand’s university and wider research sector did not happen overnight. While funding shortfalls and sweeping redundancies are now making headlines, the underlying problems have been evident for years.

The Conversation

How NZ's own law helped Australia win the Manuka Honey trademark war

The recent decision in “one of the most complex and long running” trademark cases in New Zealand was a loss for the country’s mānuka honey producers. But it also served to highlight just how ill-equipped our laws are for protecting Māori taonga (treasures) and mātauranga Māori (traditional knowledge).

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New Zealand strip club dancers are fighting to change the future of gig work in Aotearoa

In New Zealand, a collective of strip club dancers has moved a dispute with their employer out into the open to fight for protections for all gig workers.

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Why every new garden should be a 'carbon garden'

Aotearoa has vast tracts of suburban and urban terrain. The possibilities for reformulating under-used landscapes into massive carbon-capture terrains are enormous, says Rod Barnett

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The China Tightrope: War on our doorstep?

An edited extract from The China Tightrope, a new book on the NZ-China relationship, on what a conflict involving China might look like - and what that would mean for Aotearoa.

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More than just a game for vollies

Hosting three of the 'Big Four' sports events in the past year has drawn thousands of Kiwi volunteers. And some keep coming back, putting their hands up for every women's World Cup in Aotearoa.

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Aping Aussie vaping

Aotearoa could benefit from adopting some of the latest Australian measures to crack down on vaping

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The end of offshore oil and gas exploration in NZ was hard won – but it remains politically fragile

Recent news that the New Zealand government has granted an offshore oil and gas exploration permit it had earlier declined demonstrates how fragile the current ban on such activity still is.

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Rod Oram: Anxiety into action

‘Anxiety into action’ is the theme of this 10th and last episode in our Newsroom video series The Way Forward about the ways we are tackling the climate crisis in Aotearoa.

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For some workers, low-paying jobs might be more of a dead end than a stepping stone

The most recent rise in Aotearoa New Zealand’s minimum wage has again put the spotlight on low-wage jobs and the established belief that low wages are a starting point for workers who are quickly able to transition into higher-paid employment. But our research found the situation is not so straightforward.…

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