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New Zealand to end quarantine stays and reopen its borders

New Zealand’s government will end its quarantine requirements for incoming travelers and reopen its borders

The Independent UK

Border reopening: what you need to know

New Zealanders in Australia will be able to return home by the end of the month under a five-stage reopening plan announced by the Government today.

Newsroom.co.nz

Jacinda Ardern announces new plan to open NZ to the world

New Zealanders stranded in Australia will be able to return home from the end of this month and, importantly, bypass the country's lottery-based hotel quarantine system.

ABC News

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New Zealand border will open in stages from end of February, Jacinda Ardern announces

Fully vaccinated New Zealanders and other eligible travellers from Australia will be the first people able to enter the country

The Guardian - AU

Ardern to unveil New Zealand border plans

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is poised to unveil new border settings for New Zealand in response to spreading Omicron cases of COVID-19.

AAP

Albanese demands Colbeck ‘resign today’ as nation records 82 Covid deaths – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU

New Zealand's border quarantine has intercepted thousands of COVID cases, but is it time to retire the flawed system?

The controversy surrounding New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis, who has now accepted a place in border quarantine after initially seeking refuge in Afghanistan when her first application was declined, has highlighted confusion and concern over New Zealand’s managed isolation and quarantine (MIQ) system.

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Afghan women say they wouldn't be afforded the same rights as a pregnant NZ journalist under the Taliban

Afghan women accuse the Taliban of using a pregnant, New Zealand journalist as a publicity tool to show the world they can offer women rights.

ABC News

Bracing for Omicron, Govt shores up NZ's immunity wall

A decision to shorten the gap between the second vaccine dose and the booster shot will help shore up one of NZ's two front lines of defence against the rapidly-spreading Omicron variant.

Newsroom.co.nz

Irish cricket pathfinder winning Kiwi hearts

While Irish all-rounder Eimear Richardson leads the way in equality for women cricketers in her home nation, she's also starring for the Northern Brave and helping Kiwi kids love her game.

Newsroom.co.nz

Indonesia cuts off funding for Papuan students in New Zealand

The association representing international students from the West Papuan provinces of Indonesia have clapped back, saying the move is an “assassination of human resources”

Newsroom.co.nz

The Bellis tolls for MIQ

MIQ as we know it was coming to an end before the Charlotte Bellis case, but the Government must follow through and open the borders.

Newsroom.co.nz

Waitangi week: The Pākehā wars

Censorship interrupts an oral history of a new book on the New Zealand Wars, longlisted for the Ockham awards

Newsroom.co.nz

Ukraine is NZ's 'us too' moment

Diplomatic efforts to cool mounting tensions in Ukraine have come to nothing, and New Zealand's being told this is one we can't afford to sit back and watch.

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The Hindu

New Zealand's Daryl Mitchell wins ICC's 'Spirit of Cricket' award

The batsman opted not to take an easy single during the T20 World Cup semifinal against England as he felt he had "obstructed" the way of bowler Adil Rashid in that moment

AAP

Breakers stun Hawks in NBL upset

The New Zealand Breakers have found their best form of the NBL season to leave the Illawarra Hawks shellshocked after a 90-67 drubbing in Hobart.

Dynamite News

Sports: NZ all-rounder Daryl Mitchell awarded with ICC Spirit of Cricket accolade

New Zealand's Daryl Mitchell has been named the recipient of the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award after his gesture in the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup semi-final against England in Abu Dhabi.

The Guardian - AU

Covid news: Anger as Tory MP says lockdown breach ‘like parking fine’; Germany could relax restrictions in March – as it happened

Pfizer-BioNTech seeks US approval for under-5s Covid inoculation; Lithuania to scrap Covid pass on Saturday

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AAP

Buzz around Aussies taking on NZ honey

Australian Honey Ventures will soon open a second crowd-funding campaign to take on New Zealand rivals and sell the all-Aussie fair-trade honey to the world.

The Guardian - AU

Nation records 69 Covid deaths as hospital numbers fall – as it happened

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The Conversation

The most challenging phase of the Omicron outbreak is yet to come, but New Zealand may be better prepared than other countries

Within a month of the first community exposure to Omicron in Aotearoa New Zealand, the variant has already become the dominant strain of COVID-19.

Newsroom.co.nz

There is no depression in NZ: Hopes raised by $121m rescue package

The Government announces it will throw a few bob in the guitar case of Covid-strapped musicians, events promoters and film-makers – raising hopes of targeted support for other industries t

Newsroom.co.nz

Letter from MIQ: It's imperfect, but it's still needed

From an MIQ facility in Christchurch, Marc Daalder writes that the people on both sides of the border are getting carried away with callous rhetoric.

Newsroom.co.nz

Government paid $36.50 per dose of Pfizer vaccine

Documents obtained by Newsroom under the Official Information Act reveal the numbers the Government has been trying to keep secret - how much New Zealand paid for its vaccines.

Newsroom.co.nz

A greedy actor behind our housing market

If banks’ lending behaviour is found to have contributed to NZ's housing quagmire, then banks must share the pain when the bubble inevitably bursts.

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