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Aussie women beat NZ in Dubai Sevens final

Australia's rugby sevens women have maintained their global dominance, beating New Zealand in the final of the Dubai Sevens.

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QI host Sandi Toksvig in hospital in Australia with bronchial pneumonia

The 64-year-old had been due to begin the New Zealand leg of her tour this weekend but will now travel back to the UK as soon as she is well enough

Wales Online

Sandi Toksvig seriously ill in Australian hospital as she cancels tour and can't fly home

Sandi Toksvig, 64, has had to cancel her New Zealand tour dates as she is too unwell to travel, with her team releasing a statement on Twitter saying their "main priority" is getting her home to the UK

Daily Mirror

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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

The Guardian - AU

New Zealand woman takes Chinese media site to human rights tribunal over ban

Auckland woman says she was banned from popular Chinese-language media forum SkyKiwi for posting political content

The Guardian - AU

The Week in Detail: Vietnam, entrenching law, Covid summer

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Newsroom.co.nz

Grand prix sailors get set for hard grind

As the New Zealand team close in on the lead in SailGP, sailor Liv Mackay details the challenges the team face and the progress women's professional sailing has made over the past year.

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Parents refuse to accept blood from anyone with Covid jab for baby's life-saving surgery

New Zealand's national health body Te Whatu Ora has applied for guardianship of a four-month-old boy because his parents have refused to give consent for him to take donated blood for his urgent heart surgery

Daily Mirror

Super Rugby Pacific forges ahead to 2030

Super Rugby Pacific will forge ahead into 2024 and beyond after Rugby Australia scrapped plans to withdraw from the competition over a financial dispute.

AAP

NZ minister pleased with citizenship talk

Foreign Minister Penny Wong and her New Zealand counterpart Nanaia Mahuta have met in Canberra and discussed the progression of voting rights and citizenship.

AAP

NZ lawyer escapes Beijing as Govt bows to mass protests over Covid lockdowns

Residents in Patrick Rosevear's apartment block in Beijing are part of a pushback that is forcing President Xi Jinping to loosen tough Covid controls.

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Are we in for another Covid summer?

Summer has arrived, but with our restrictions largely kicked to the curb and a soup of different variants at play, what can we expect from Covid-19 case numbers?

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This week's bestselling books

The week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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Climate-conscious consumers to bale out wool industry

Wool is natural, sustainable, biodegradable and versatile but NZ’s coarse wool industry is in more dire trouble than ever - a situation a new three-year strategy hopes to change, writes Nikki Mandow

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Five in a row for red hot Breakers in NBL

A stunning first-half blitz from the New Zealand Breakers has seen the NBL ladder leaders ease past the South East Melbourne Phoenix in Christchurch.

The Conversation

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.

The Conversation

'Earth's empty quarter': many Pacific nations now have falling populations

In 1989, distinguished Australian geographer Gerard Ward wrote that the Pacific was emptying out. As people on smaller islands left to seek opportunity elsewhere, the region risked becoming Earth’s empty quarter. He wrote:

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Leading Chinese figure's epic fall from grace

What next for a New Zealand-Chinese heavy hitter in business and international relations after he serves a four month night curfew at his Remuera home?

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When New Zealanders get into trouble overseas

If you're arrested or detained overseas, who do you call for help back home - and can they really help you?

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Reserve Bank just landed final blow to Labour's election hopes

Labour is not responsible for the global economic crisis, the Ukraine war or the Reserve Bank’s record rate rise but is set to suffer electorally the way it did after the oil shock in 1974.

WEKU

Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin shut down a reporter's sexist question about their ages

Asked whether she met with her Finnish counterpart "just because" of their similarities in age and gender, New Zealand's leader questioned whether reporters would ask the same of her male predecessor.

Dynamite News

IND vs NZ: Third ODI Match Called Off Due To Rain; New Zealand Win Series 1-0 Against India

The third and final ODI of the three-match series between India and New Zealand was called off due to rain, with the hosts being able to score 104/1 in 18 overs at the time rain intervened and put any possibility of further action to rest. Read on for details:

WEKU

The bodies-in-suitcase suspect appears in a New Zealand court

A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases made her first court appearance in New Zealand on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Jacinda Ardern and Sanna Marin shoot down awkward question about their age and gender

‘We are meeting because we are prime ministers’

ABC News

Jacinda Ardern shuts down suggestion she met with Finnish leader because of age, gender

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shoots down a reporter's suggestion she and the Finnish leader met simply because of similarities such as their age and gender.

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