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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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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