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For mumfluencers, the changing digital age comes with new challenges
30 Nov 2024Mumfluencing can be a lucrative business, but making a living off of children can come at a cost.
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Methanol and inaccessible medical care - a lethal combination
28 Nov 2024Facing methanol poisoning in a place like Laos means hurdles to getting help, including accessing health care in time.
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How rough sex and strangulation entered the nation's conversations
27 Nov 2024Rough sex is becoming normalised in pop culture, and more common in real life - whether or not people want to take part.
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An update of the 'brutal' Mental Health Act
26 Nov 2024The Prime Minister has apologised for decades of child abuse in care, but the Mental Health Act allows some of the same kind of treatment to be dished out to the mentally unwell.
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When the heart of a community folds
25 Nov 2024Local free newspapers are disappearing as costs soar, revenue plummets and readers turn to screens.
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Celebrating families who give the ultimate gift
23 Nov 2024Next Saturday is Thank You Day, a chance to express gratitude to everyone involved in organ donation, and raise awareness about the issue.
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Saying goodbye to New Zealand's last elephant
22 Nov 2024Moving an elephant across an ocean is no small feat for her keepers, physically or mentally.
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Lawyers fight changes that would mean fewer jury trials
21 Nov 2024The Detail - Defence lawyers say there are better ways of clearing clogged courts than the government's plan to have fewer jury trials.
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The Kiwi business leader giving exploited migrants a second chance
20 Nov 2024Meet the Aucklander helping pick up the pieces of migrant exploitation.
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Poor outcomes for poverty
19 Nov 2024When it comes to our outcomes on poverty, New Zealand's marks are poor. Experts gathering the week in Wellington want to change that.
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New Zealand may face fallout from Trump's economic war
We aren't the target of US President-elects threats, but might end up collateral damage.
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Changes ahead for the mail, and posties aren't happy
15 Nov 2024Posties say proposals that include job cuts, price increases, communal delivery points and fewer deliveries and postal outlets threaten the NZ way of life. Audio
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You are what you eat, at least in the eyes of your coworkers
16 Nov 2024How we eat lunch at work has changed, but a good lunch is more about how you eat than what.
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Your career stops here - the gender absent from the top jobs in sport
14 Nov 2024The Detail - It's being labelled toxic positivity; opening the door to women in sport but closing it before they get into high performance coaching jobs.
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Talk but little help for Fijians facing rising sea levels
13 Nov 2024Crops and vegetables contaminated with sea water, an ocean that's getting fished out, and inundation at high tide is the reality of life for perhaps hundreds of Fijian villages
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The toll of deep fake pornography on Kiwi students
12 Nov 2024Deepfake porn is easier to create, and students are suffering the consequences
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Families panic as government slashes school bus routes
11 Nov 2024The Detail - The Ministry of Education has cancelled 39 rural bus routes. Parents say it will leave hundreds of students unable to get to school.
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Basketball legend Steven Adams has returned after a two-year layoff
9 Nov 2024It's been 645 days between dunks for Kiwi NBA stalwart Steven Adams. He's older, wiser, and more often than not, on the bench.
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A refugee welcome that hasn't been matched in 80 years
8 Nov 2024The welcome mat is laid out for the return of Polish refugee children in Pahiatua, where their arrival 80 years ago has been wound into the fabric of the town's history.
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A question of consent on the operating table
7 Nov 2024At North Shore Hospital, anaesthetised patients were examined by student doctors without giving consent. It's likely that most don't even know it happened.
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Why AI won't ruin children's education
6 Nov 2024Chat GPT is here and changing education, with new versions of the technology making the use of it harder to detect.
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Building consents without council sign-off raises red flags
5 Nov 2024Getting a building consent is about to become easier, with some builders allowed to skip council inspections.
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Risk that roadside drug testing could make roads less safe
4 Nov 2024Some fear drivers will swap prescription drugs like medicinal cannabis for more dangerous substances that don't show up on saliva tests.
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The making of Donald Trump
2 Nov 2024A few days out from the US presidential election, The Apprentice tells the story of how Trump became Trump.
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