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Loafers Lodge and the lessons for higher density housing

In the push to get more people living in higher density housing, have our fire and building regulations been left behind?

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New Zealand police say hostel fire that killed 6 was arson, launch homicide investigation

New Zealand police say they believe a fire that killed at least six people in a Wellington hostel was arson and launched a homicide investigation

The Independent UK

Wellington hostel fire rescue could have been hampered by broken ladder truck

Firefighters confronted by people screaming at them to "save their mates" on the top floor did not have a second truck.

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Six dead after fire engulfs hostel in Wellington, New Zealand

The cause of the fire is not known, but emergency services are treating the incident as suspicious.

Al Jazeera

Gore Mayor stares down council mutineers

An extraordinary meeting of the Gore council aimed at getting the mayor to resign or cutting him from council committees was a fizzer, with none of those actions advanced and much talk of moving forward together in the 'Gore Way'

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A fire at a New Zealand hostel kills at least 6 people, the prime minister says

A fire ripped through a hostel in New Zealand's capital overnight, killing at least six people and forcing others to flee the four-story building in their pajamas.

WEKU

Six bodies located after Wellington hostel blaze

Six bodies have been located - but not recovered - after a major fire in a Wellington hostel overnight

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Council staff 'extremely unprofessional' towards Gore Mayor Ben Bell at times, board chair says

The effort to oust Gore Mayor Ben Bell is "ridiculous", Mataura Community Board chair Nicky Coats says.

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2250 sign Gore petition to oust council CEO

Residents of the deep south town of Gore are asked to back a petition calling for the removal of longstanding council chief executive Stephen Parry

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Green MP walks out amid toxic row

The Green Party's in-fighting leads to a defection by MP Elizabeth Kerekere ahead of a damaging inquiry into her behaviour towards colleagues and staff

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The Week in Detail: Live exports, trouble in Gore

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

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MediaRoom: Stuff's three-legged paywall

MediaRoom column: Stuff will ask readers in three regions to pay for their local news; NZME's subdued annual meeting; plus, The Detail podcast turns four.

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Jackson’s Plan B for public media

Axing the proposed merger of TVNZ and RNZ saved the Government a significant amount of money but left it with the problems the merger was supposed to fix. Mark Jennings looks at Labour’s new slimmed down approach to public media.

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The Week in Detail: Karakia, retirement, Warkworth radio dish

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

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RNZ enters Chinese-language news amid censorship concerns

The state broadcaster is due to launch a dedicated Asia unit amid concerns about foreign interference in Chinese-language media.

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The Week in Detail: Top authors, lobbying, and Muriwai

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

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Behind the story: Lobbying and the backdoor of our democracy

The Detail talks to RNZ's Guyon Espiner about his series on the murky world of lobbying.

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The Week in Detail: From silicosis to SailGP

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

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The Week in Detail: Manosphere, Bloomfield, and supermarket shelves

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

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Skint Parliament to turn off the radio

Those who rely on their radio to keep track of their politicians in the parliamentary debating chamber could soon find the wireless going dead writes Phil Smith of RNZ

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Younger audiences slip away from local media

Research shows 15-24-year olds are switching off from TVNZ and RNZ and reaching for TikTok and YouTube. Can they be brought back?

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The Week in Detail: Cyclone, Census, China

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

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Yesterdaze: Belittling experiments in leadership

Cantakerous, cranky and communicatively challenged - our politicians turned out all varieties of sub-par this week. James Elliott breaks it down.

The Conversation

‘Let them watch Netflix’ – what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?

The government’s decision to abandon the Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media (ANZPM) Bill came as no surprise after months of increasingly negative speculation. Officially, it stems from the prioritisation of “bread and butter issues” during a cost-of-living crisis, but it’s hard not to see this as a significant policy failure…

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PM axes Ardern's projects, takes wind out of Nats' sails

Hate speech, biofuels, the media merger and social insurance have been dumped in the worthy, but not important bin, after Chris Hipkins takes the axe to his predecessor's policies.

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