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Amid jeers and boos, strained Māori relations with government dominate national holiday

Record crowds gather for country’s national day as fears of a wind back of Māori rights lead to angry exchanges

The Guardian - AU

Tackle training and too many urinals: New Zealand women face challenges as they flock to rugby

Participation up 20% since Black Ferns World Cup victory but change rooms and tackle safety among challenges for female players

The Guardian - AU

Bumpy roads ahead: New Zealand’s incoming PM set to lead a three-headed, ‘anti-woke’ government

Final results from last month’s election confirm the right-wing National Party will need to partner with the ACT Party and NZ First to form government

The Guardian - AU

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Boomerang adults: the young New Zealanders moving back in with their parents

Return of working adults to family home sign of acute housing pressures with parties split on how to ease crisis ahead of election

The Guardian - AU

Sam Neill on his new memoir and living with blood cancer: ‘I’m not afraid to die, but it would annoy me’

The New Zealand actor’s new memoir reveals that he has been ‘crook’ with blood cancer and will need chemo for the rest of his life. But relaxing on his farm, he is philosophical. ‘Dying? I couldn’t care less,’ he says

The Guardian - AU

Buried by mud and silt, New Zealand’s farms face ‘10-year recovery’ – picture essay

Livelihoods in tatters after months of relentless rain and extreme weather – and the clean-up is just beginning

The Guardian - AU

Waitangi Day celebrations struggle to mute politics in heated election year

Questions of sovereignty, inequality and New Zealand history hang in the background as political speeches foreshadow a future in which relationship with Māori plays a central role

The Guardian - AU

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‘The community is 100% scared’: shop owners of Auckland’s Little India at centre of national crime debate

After a series of high-profile robberies and ram raids, the owners of Sandringham’s dairies say something has changed in New Zealand

The Guardian - AU

Tears shed as men fall for women's rugby

Witnessing the Black Ferns' magic has made dyed-in-the-wool men's rugby aficionado Jim Kayes fall for the women's game at this Rugby World Cup. And he's not alone, he writes.

Newsroom.co.nz

The sisters Black Ferns are lucky to have

Black Ferns coach Wayne Smith sings the praises of sisters Alana and Chelsea Bremner, but laments his team's lack of discipline, after they storm into the quarterfinals of the Rugby World Cup

Newsroom.co.nz

With most mandatory public health measures gone, is New Zealand well prepared for the next COVID wave?

New Zealand’s decision this week to end most mandatory public health measures aimed at preventing COVID transmission received a mixed response. Our modelling suggests it was time to wind back restrictions, but some measures were perhaps scrapped prematurely.

The Conversation

Rare, precious, smells like whale: hunting for ambergris in New Zealand

On wild beaches, secretive harvesters seek the coveted whale byproduct that can make a fortune in an instant

The Guardian - AU

From homeless and busking to the main stage: Rodney Bell’s wheelchair dance tours Australia

The Māori performer can’t remember the motorcycle accident that paralysed him – but it led him to dance

The Guardian - AU

Can Tonga turn their golden generation into a new era of stars?

Tonga is blessed with an extraordinary crop of talent, headed by Jason Taumalolo. But how does international rugby league's newest powerhouse turn that into a sustainable future?

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The Guardian - AU

Yachts and mansions: founder of company that left thousands of Aboriginal people out of pocket made more than $20m, tax-free

Ron Pattenden continued to make money from the Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund even after selling it in the wake of damning royal commission findings

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s hardline deportation policy leaves no room for second chances

Mystery Sixtus was deported alone to NZ as a teenager and separated from family, one of the increasing number of non-citizens removed under the Migration Act

The Guardian - AU

Māori village nestled among hot springs reckoning with the return of foreign tourists

Residents of Whakarewarewa live in a unique landscape reliant on visitors for income – but that comes at an environmental cost

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