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My Māmā's love for Matariki
14 Jul 2023First person - As the country marks the rising of Matariki, Te Ao Māori journalist Ella Stewart writes about her Māmā's adoration of this special time of year.
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More transparency would help build trust in NZ farmers, study finds
13 Jul 2023Opinion - At a time when urban communities want higher transparency, there are ways farmers could strengthen agriculture's social license to operate, researchers say.
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Global temperature rises - why we can expect a steep climb this year and next
12 Jul 2023Analysis - Every decade after the 1960s has been warmer than the one before and the 2010s were the warmest on record. But there can be a lot of variability from one year to the next, Kevin Trenberth w…
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NZ needs to consider what partnership with NATO really means
12 Jul 2023Analysis - As a "welcomed guest" at the latest NATO summit in Lithuania, PM Chris Hipkins had a front-row seat for debates such as Ukraine's membership and the ongoing threat of China, Alexander…
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NZ workplace safety stats 'abysmal'
10 Jul 2023Opinion - New Zealand has an abysmal record of work-related deaths. Yet the country's only postgraduate course in work health and safety is under review as part of a wider cost-cutting exercise at…
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How Norman Kirk still speaks to 21st century NZ
Analysis - Denis Welch asks us to consider whether or not Labour's lost leader(s) might yet help us find a better future, Richard Shaw writes.
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New Zealand prepares to embrace NATO
8 Jul 2023Analysis: Is NZ about to join 'NATO+'? That seems to be the effective endgame, if reports ahead of Chris Hipkins' attendance at the NATO summit in Lithuania are anything to go by, Geoffrey Miller writ…
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The death and rebirth of the country's longest-running column
9 Jul 2023The New Zealand Herald column Sideswipe ended in May after a 21-year run. Its creator tells Mediawatch about how it survived so long and what the revamped version looks like. Audio
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Mediawatch: Chris Luxon, the 'unknowable' man
9 Jul 2023Political reporters often say people need to get to know National leader Chris Luxon, despite being in the job for 18 months. Is it possible he's unknowable? Or is it time to retire the narrative? Audio
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The Week in Politics: Parties lock horns on gangs, health staff shortages
Analysis: Health workforce data shows the extent of the problem that this government and the next are facing, National and ACT reject a report which says the country can't arrest its way out of the…
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Can the FIFA World cup help level the playing field for all women footballers?
5 Jul 2023Opinion - There's little doubt the FIFA Women's World Cup will deliver spectacle and significant financial rewards, however the longer-term rewards are harder to predict, Julie E Brice and Holly…
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The Week in Politics: Success in Beijing, trouble at home
30 Jun 2023Analysis - While the PM succeeds in Beijing a ministerial scandal breaks out at home; Luxon is called out for trying to humiliate the acting PM and ageing RNZAF aircraft spark another controversy.
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Behind the handshakes, NZ walks an increasingly fine line with China
28 Jun 2023Analysis - Hipkins was wise to visit China now given the upcoming NATO summit and decision on joining AUKUS, Alexander Gillespie writes.
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The 3 questions NZ's university funding review must ask
28 Jun 2023Opinion - Yesterday's budget boost for universities has been welcomed, Nicola Gaston writes, but is it a bailout or a Band-Aid?
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The real issue in the wash up of the Super Rugby final
26 Jun 2023Opinion - Rugby is often a game of inches, so you're probably not going to win if you're giving up yards. The problem with the Super Rugby final was who was giving them up and when, writes Jamie Wall. Video
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The sun goes down on Elton John with a rhapsodic Glastonbury set
26 Jun 2023Review - The sun set on one of the greatest careers in British music history, as Elton John played the last UK show of his farewell tour at Glastonbury.
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National straddles two strategies as it prepares for nail-biter election
26 Jun 2023Power Play - In letting slip its election-night target of 45 percent this weekend, the National Party revealed some of its inner thinking around its campaign strategy.
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Week in Politics: National goes hard on law and order
25 Jun 2023Analysis - National pushes Labour on gangs and disorder as it settles on one of its primary campaign narratives, writes Peter Wilson in a look at the Week in Politics.
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Sorry prime minister, Joe Biden was right – Xi Jinping really is a ‘dictator’
23 Jun 2023Opinion - It's not every day that a NZ prime minister takes China's side in a disagreement between Washington and Beijing. But these are extraordinary times.
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Housing market drives inequality - why not tax houses?
Opinion - The Green Party made waves recently when it proposed to tax net wealth over $2 million for individuals and $4m for couples, Susan St John writes .
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Struggling universities put NZ's entire research strategy at risk
20 Jun 2023Opinion - While funding shortfalls and sweeping redundancies in the university wider research sector are now making headlines, the underlying problems have been evident for years, Nicola Gaston writes…
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Then and now: Lessons Mark Robinson took from his time as an All Black
16 Jun 2023The NZ Rugby chief executive isn't usually short of a word, but one question has him wondering: what was it like to be an All Black? Video
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Cutting fruit and veg GST not the best way to help - tax expert
17 Jun 2023Opinion - Rising food prices bring up debates on removing GST from fresh produce - but is this a good idea? And if not, what alternatives might there be to help people afford fruit and vegetables?
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Week in Politics: National and Labour go courting at Fieldays
16 Jun 2023Analysis - National would have had clear air for its agriculture policy if Christopher Luxon had not come down with a case of foot in mouth, writes Peter Wilson.
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