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While work schemes offer Pacific Islanders economic opportunities, critics say they exacerbate labour shortages at home.

With six months to go until the big kick-off, over half a million tickets have been sold for the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand

U.S. Soccer had a drama-filled start to the year, but several other notable story lines have emerged over the past two weeks.

We cross live to the centre of the universe

Political opposites Ian Powell and Heather Roy take the temperature of the country’s unitary health body.

Tokyo’s dramatic and hawkish turn towards defence in the face of China's growing influence is likely to have ramifications for New Zealand. Geoffrey Miller explains. 

A famously animal-shaped building in rural Waikato is up for lease - just like the hopes of the tourism sector in general

Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, says a future Labour government will consider measures to incrementally ban smoking. Labour is watching New Zealand, which legislated to criminalise every potential smoker born after 2009. That generation will never legally smoke.

Climate crisis could be the ‘nail in the coffin’ for half of languages spoken by the end of the century, say linguists, as coastal communities are forced to migrate