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Allies flinch as Trump blows up the West as we know it
Analysis - Some of the US's closest friends are rethinking their relationship in the face of isolationism.
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Musk's grandfather and the 1930s movement aiming to merge the US, Canada and Greenland
A movement that wanted to merge North America into one nation and extend its borders might sound incredibly familiar.
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Everything is blowing up in Elon Musk’s face
4 Apr 2025Analysis: All it took was losing US$100 billion in three months to make Musk change his tune.
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New modelling reveals full impact of Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs – with the US hit hardest
Analysis - Previous tariff announcements by the Trump administration dropped sand into the cogs of international trade. The reciprocal tariffs throw a spanner into the works.
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'Garbage time': When 500 million people change their spending, the world feels it
Analysis: China is not so in the midst of an economic crash as a slow decline of hope, Christian Yao writes.
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After success with Boygenius, Lucy Dacus steps into the spotlight
30 Mar 2025Tony Stamp reviews American songwriter Lucy Dacus's fourth album, the third solo LP from Ringlets guitarist László Reynolds and some blunt, pithy techno from Canada's Marie Davidson.
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Super Rugby Pacific round seven: the upsets keep coming
30 Mar 2025Analysis - Even the shortened round gave us a result for the ages. Video
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Childhood exposure to air pollution can affect teens' mental health
27 Mar 2025There's a higher risk of conduct issues, lower educational attainment and substance abuse linked to higher exposure, researchers say.
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Analysis: The government's latest plan for schools might fail the history test
Returning to national standards - either in name or just in spirit - should raise alarms for everyone.
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Explainer: Why does everyone get so bloody angry about schoolboy rugby?
23 Mar 2025Jamie Wall reveals just what's going on in yet another controversy rocking the often turbulent and bizarre school rugby landscape.
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Albanese vs Dutton: Australia's PM battle decades in the making
28 Mar 2025Analysis - Come May only one can be Australia's prime minister. Audio
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New sentencing laws will further drive up NZ's imprisonment rates
Analysis - The Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill which is about to become law will likely drive New Zealand's already high incarceration rate even higher, Linda Mussell writes.
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Does the end of Voice of America leave a void for China and Russia to fill?
25 Mar 2025By defunding the Voice of America and other state-funded US media outlets, Donald Trump risks opening the airwaves to the more overt propaganda of rival countries.
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Dismal issues survey leaves National little room for error
Analysis - A record-low rating of government performance will be unwelcome news for Christopher Luxon in a political week focused offshore. Audio
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Turkey moves closer to endless Erdogan rule as biggest rival detained
20 Mar 2025Analysis: The Istanbul mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was detained in a move the opposition condemned as politically motivated, Nadeen Ebrahim writes.
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NZ has no dedicated database to track losses from weather disasters
19 Mar 2025Currently, New Zealand has no dedicated disaster loss database. This means we don't know how much extreme weather events and other types of disasters are costing us.
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Could the Trump factor save UK PM Keir Starmer's popularity?
23 Mar 2025Analysis - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was struggling in the polls, then he met Donald Trump.
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Luxon meets Modi: Why a ‘good’ NZ-India trade deal is preferable to a ‘perfect’ one
17 Mar 2025Analysis - Not all trade deals are the same, and Luxon may yet get to claim bragging rights.
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Tax changes for charities could throttle their work, academics warn
Opinion - overhauling tax rules for charities could make some unviable or make it harder for them to continue their work, Juliet Chevalier-Watts and Frank Scrimgeour write.
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Sharing 'information' or 'gossip'? It depends who's doing it
17 Mar 2025What counts as gossip is much more slippery than we might think, writes academic researcher James Greenslade-Yeats.
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Australia learned from its own shooting tragedies: Six ideas NZ can borrow
15 Mar 2025Analysis - Nearly 30 years before the 2019 Christchurch attacks, NZ grappled with the horrors of another mass shooting - but law changes made in the aftermath of the massacre were inadequate.
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How Trump's trade war could quickly spiral out of control
14 Mar 2025Analysis: It started with tariffs, but the trade war is quickly escalating beyond import taxes into a broader tit-for-tat battle.
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Hey big spenders: What foreign investors will really want from the infrastructure summit
Analysis - To attract crucial infrastructure investment from overseas, the government are looking at public-private partnerships, but what do investors want?
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Stop waiting for a foreign supermarket hero
18 Mar 2025New Zealanders hoping for a foreign hero to break up the current supermarket concentration will be waiting a long time.
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