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Prime minister says she took part in three decade-old programme said to involve more than half of country’s schools

Is Shakespeare still relevant to today's students? New Zealand's arts council appears to have its doubts after ending funding for a popular school Shakespeare program, arguing it relied too heavily on busy schools, failed to show relevance to “the contemporary art context” and relied on a genre “located within a…

The proposal has sparked a fierce backlash from farmers

The levy is strongly opposed by farmers

Farm animals produce gases that warm the planet, particularly methane from cattle burps and nitrous oxide from their urine.

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change. Farmers quickly condemned the plan.

By 2025, farmers would pay a levy on emissions from sources such as cow burps and gases from their urine under proposals released by Jacinda Ardern

New Zealand’s government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change

Saturday’s win for centre-right mayors doesn’t seal the deal for National at next year’s general election. But it does send a big wake-up call to Labour