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Week in Politics: What was Judith Collins really thinking?
Analysis - Judith Collins loses the National Party leadership after disciplining Simon Bridges, the prime minister sets 3 December as "freedom day" and there's a mixed reaction to plans for re-opening the international border.
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How Collins crushed her own leadership
Power Play: The expectation was Judith Collins would be rolled by the next election, but it was her own actions that precipitated a pre-Christmas bloodletting…
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Collins may be gone but NZ's search for a credible, viable opposition is not over
Analysis: When Shane Reti replaced Judith Collins at the helm of New Zealand's National Party today, he became the fifth National leader Prime Minister Jacinda…
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Collins and Bridges: MP disputes should allow some natural justice
Analysis - In the wake of the National Party's unceremonious toppling of leader Judith Collins, former ministerial adviser Brigitte Morten argues the case for…
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Are New Zealand’s universities doing enough to define the limits of academic freedom?
23 Nov 2021Misinformation is incompatible with performing a role as critic and conscience of society Matheson Russell writes for The Conversation.
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How we can improve NZ's messy climate change regulation
23 Nov 2021Analysis - Like other countries, New Zealand has both international and domestic targets to reduce emissions, but they run on different timelines and are based on different assumptions.
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The end-of-year tours: What we learned
23 Nov 2021Analysis - A few days after the end of the All Blacks' and Black Ferns' season, it's not so much a case of dust settling as nuclear fallout, Jamie Wall writes.
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You can leave Auckland on December 15. But should you?
Opinion - Aucklanders are already booking summer holiday houses in record numbers. Leonie Hayden argues for putting off that road trip just a little longer.
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COP26's ocean acidification failure: States must protect the world's oceans
20 Nov 2021The COP26 summit may come to be regarded as a failure or an important milestone, but it certainly failed to address the other climate change problem - ocean acidification, wites Karen Scott.
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Risks of increasing Covid-19 disinformation, extremism in New Zealand
Analysis - Last week's Covid-19 protest outside Parliament served as a warning that New Zealand is not immune to the kinds of anger seen overseas, writes professor Alexander Gillespie.
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Stop saying children are 'resilient'
Opinion - We don't protect children by saying they're resilient. We build resilience through policy that supports children by improving systems and providing resources, writes Dr Julie Spray.
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All Blacks and Black Ferns: In a desperate land
21 Nov 2021Comment: It's not exactly the end of the world, but Doors frontman, bad poet and former Parisian resident Jim Morrison's words ring true for the end of this All Black season, writes Jamie Wall. Video
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Week in Politics: Changes are on the way - for all of us
19 Nov 2021Analysis: The country is on the brink of moving to the new traffic light system, Auckland's border opening date is set and vaccine certificates are launched. A new poll shows Labour falling but…
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Opinion: Electric cars alone won't save the planet
17 Nov 2021Opinion - Electric vehicles give us the illusion we are dramatically reducing our environmental impact while changing virtually nothing about our lifestyles, argues Timothy Welch.
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Good design lies at heart of normalising disability - new ministry must prioritise it
Opinion - While working as a nurse in a busy hospital I began to use a magnifying glass, as I could no longer read the small print on medication vials, Sally Britnell writes.
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Has the law got the right balance on vaccine mandates?
Opinion - Vaccine mandates are now in force for about 40 percent of New Zealand's workforce, but the question of what breaches of which rights are justifiable in a public health emergency is not clear…
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Jamie Wall: All Blacks drown in the Green Room
14 Nov 2021Ireland have beaten the All Blacks for the third time in five years. Jamie Wall writes it's not so much that New Zealand played particularly badly, it's that they were barely allowed to play at all.
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Decoding Nanaia Mahuta’s first foreign trip
15 Nov 2021Analysis - A first overseas trip by a Foreign Minister is always of symbolic significance, writes international analyst Geoffrey Miller, and this one has both expected destinations and surprises.
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Drinking Games: Guyon Espiner on alcohol and identity
15 Nov 2021First person - Guyon Espiner can still remember the Steinlager ad campaigns of his youth, and years on, it remains impossible to escape alcohol marketing.
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Week in Politics: Will 1 December be Auckland's 'Freedom Day'?
12 Nov 2021Week in Politics: The PM all but promises Auckland its freedom and the date is likely to be 1 December, thousands of people march against vaccinations, mandates and other grievances, but no one…
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New Zealand’s legal aid crisis is eroding the right to justice
12 Nov 2021Opinion - Urgent action is required to avoid a growing justice gap that should be unacceptable in modern New Zealand, writes Kris Gledhill.
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Rugby: All Blacks reach the business end of the Northern tour
13 Nov 2021Analysis - The All Blacks will go in as favourites, but there is an air of mystery over this test after Ireland's demolition of Japan last weekend, writes Jamie Wall.
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No causal link between young kids' screen time, later inattention and hyperactivity, studies suggest
11 Nov 2021The possibility that screen time during early childhood could cause poorer attention later in a child's life is a major concern for both parents and researchers.
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Black Caps' T20 World Cup play sure to make New Zealanders proud - Bidwell
11 Nov 2021For New Zealand to thrash India by eight wickets in pool play at this tournament - and now send England packing too - is immensely satisfying, writes Hamish Bidwell.
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How to help kids get the most protection from their face mask
With many children around the country required to wear masks in classrooms, parents are wondering how they can support their kids' mask use. Auckland University's Joel Rindelaub has some advice. Video
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How do vaccinated teachers talk to their anti-vax colleagues?
10 Nov 2021As the mandatory deadline approaches, the teaching profession has to wrestle with how to demonstrate the value of manaakitanga to all colleagues, including the unvaccinated, writes Paul Heyward.
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Obama addresses High Ambition Coalition countries at COP26
Explainer - New Zealand is part of a coalition pushing for more progressive climate policies in Glasgow.
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Unvaccinated Papua New Guinea struggles against misinformation and faith
Opinion - Only 1.7 percent of Papua New Guineans have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The reasons for this are bound deeply in a highly Christian society that's suspicious of outside…
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