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Green streets: why protecting urban parks and bush is vital as our cities grow and become denser

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the proportion of people who live in towns or cities exceeds 86%. With our lives increasingly lived in urban environments, it’s vital for our personal wellbeing – and the planet’s – that city planners find ways…

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Clarity from the Confusing Swirl of China

Fifty years ago this month, Aotearoa New Zealand established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China. Some stories are too often drowned out by diplomacy, geopolitics, and trade.

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New gigs the new normal

As Aotearoa’s technology industry grapples with a digital skills shortage, our biggest telco and digital services company is using Artificial Intelligence to create opportunities for its employees. Diana Dobson reports | Content partnership

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NZ's proposed pumped storage hydropower project will cost billions – here's how to make it worthwhile

Greater electrification of the economy is an essential part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s climate policy, as set out in the emissions reduction plan.

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A new study shows NZ’s young minorities feel racism differently – wealth or being able to ‘pass’ as white makes a difference

Racism in Aotearoa New Zealand has been increasingly under the spotlight in recent years. The 2019 Christchurch mosque attacks amplified conversations about racial equality that continued in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests.

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What the data doesn't show about Asian health

The pioneering example of Māori and Pacific Islanders, with service models such as Whānau Ora, shows a way forward to improve the health system for Asian communities in NZ, writes Denzel Chung

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New Zealand's climate change education needs to better engage pupils

Climate education has yet to be prioritised by the Ministry of Education but an effective learning programme has already been developed and trialled in Aotearoa, says Dr Jenny Ritchie

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‘The original art galleries’: protecting New Zealand’s hidden Māori rock art

Few know of the drawings scattered across Aotearoa, some of them dating from first arrival of humans, but iwi and scientists are working to change that

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Bike odyssey may have saved netballer's life

Kelly Hutton was two-thirds of the way into an epic attempt to cycle through Aotearoa, when her cancer caught up with her. The netball trailblazer spoke to Suzanne McFadden about her journey against all odds.

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Banning menthol cigarettes and more health warnings are only the start. Australia could look to NZ for how to do tobacco control

This week’s announcement of a raft of new tobacco control measures – including banning menthol products and proposing health warnings on individual cigarettes – are important and welcome.

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NZ is on climate glide time

Many firsts were achieved at COP27 to which Aotearoa enthusiastically signed up, but we have a chasm between climate commitment and action.

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Seeing, hearing, feeling Māori: the night New Zealand won more than a rugby match

The Women’s Rugby World Cup was a milestone for seeing Māori culture and worldview deeply embedded in Aotearoa’s national identity

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New Zealand scored C+ for physical activity in children and teens – what’s driving this and what can be done?

C+ – that’s Aotearoa New Zealand’s overall grade in the most comprehensive global assessment of physical activity in children and adolescents. Even more worryingly, the 57 participating countries scored a D average overall.

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New research shows ancestral Māori adapted quickly in the face of rapid climate change

When the ancestors of Māori made landfall in Aotearoa some 750 years ago, it marked the final stop of the greatest expansion of human migration in prehistory.

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How the US midterms will affect NZ

American voters' decisions at the polls shape the economic and political environment in Aotearoa.

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A more resonant occasion than Guy Fawkes

It’s time Aotearoa asks why we celebrate Guy Fawkes instead of looking to our own uncomfortable past to commemorate the lives of Taranaki Māori who suffered cruel injustices.

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Why New Zealand must consider restricting alcohol sponsorship of broadcast sports as part of a wider law reform

For those concerned about the public health impacts of alcohol, the government’s recent policy announcement was perhaps a little “glass half empty” to be cause for outright celebration.

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A birdwatching trip back in time: ‘What pre-mammal New Zealand would’ve been like’

Just outside Dunedin, kākā chatter, ancient lizards hatch their eggs, and baby kiwis fatten up to fighting weight in a predator-free sanctuary

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For Tītī sake, turn off the lights

It's high time a seabird won Bird of the Year, says Ariel-Micaiah Heswall

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Teen sneaker queen makes women in sport history

Over 10,000 rangatahi across Aotearoa have been able to play sport because of one young woman. And Maia Mariner is about to inspire more at the world's largest women in sport conference

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Despite the myth, deer are not an ecological substitute for moa and should be part of NZ’s predator-free plan

The impact of deer on Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment is never far from the headlines. Most recently, the Southland Conservation Board highlighted the damage the introduced species was doing to native forest on Rakiura Stewart Island.

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Smoke and mirrors: why claims that NZ’s smokefree policy could fuel an illicit tobacco trade don’t stack up

The New Zealand parliament is currently considering a new smokefree law to implement key components of the Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan.

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New Zealand pulls funding for school Shakespeare festival, citing ‘canon of imperialism’

Secondary school competition ‘did not demonstrate the relevance to the contemporary art context of Aotearoa’

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All you need to know: The Rugby World Cup

It's time! After five years' wait, the Rugby World Cup finally gets underway at Eden Park today. Here's our guide to get you started on the five-week tournament in Aotearoa.

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NZ's key teacher unions now reject classroom streaming. So what's wrong with grouping kids by perceived ability?

Aotearoa New Zealand’s high school teachers’ union recently approved a policy to end streaming – also known as “ability grouping” – in New Zealand high schools by 2030. The primary teachers’ union NZEI Te Riu Roa took a similar stance in March 2021.

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