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Fears of privatisation by stealth as healthcare system struggles
4 Oct 2024As more and more healthcare becomes private, experts worry.
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High-flying Du Val's crash and burn
A convoluted drama playing out for an Auckland property developer has ensnared small-scale investors and contractors alike.
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The words we love, hate, and find confusing
5 Oct 2024A look at the words we find the most confusing, satisfying, irritating, beautiful, and just plain revolting.
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The mall causing airport traffic problems
2 Oct 2024Auckland Airport's new Mānawa Bay mall is ritzy and glitzy, but only time will tell if people are bagging bargains, or just window shopping.
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Breathing life into te reo Māori documents
21 Sep 2024The Detail: Auckland City Library takes visitors on a trip back in time with a display that includes the first efforts to write down the Māori language.
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Slow moves to fix fast fashion
27 Sep 2024NZ's fashion industry is facing serious long-term problems, including the influx of cheap, shoddy clothing and way too much waste.
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The Tupperware party is over
28 Sep 2024The Detail: The novelty has worn off for the plastic products sold by way of social gatherings, crushed by online access to cheaper goods
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More strike action coming from under-strain ambulance staff
16 Sep 2024Frontline St John ambulance staff say the organisation is broken and on life support.
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The Detail: Safety measures en route for bus drivers
13 Sep 2024After a spate of attacks on bus drivers, authorities say public transport is still safe.
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The great slanging match that is the US election
9 Sep 2024The US election is a dog-eat-dog, no-holds-barred fight between two people who couldn't be more different to each other.
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SIS report spells out threats facing NZ
6 Sep 2024In 2024, spying has gone high tech - but it's not all cybercrime and internet hacking
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Nailing bi-partisanship to build the nation
4 Sep 2024It's hoped a new infrastructure body will lead to a more sensible pipeline of projects than the current stop/start political rollercoaster
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Stunning scenery and treacherous terrain on Te Araroa trail
3 Sep 2024New Zealand tramps are a major draw for international tourists. Not all of them are prepared for the dangers our tracks have in store.
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Dispute over $33 million bill halts construction on luxury tower
On Auckland's skyline, the country's largest residential tower sits unfinished and exposed to the elements.
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London's calling, but more New Zealanders aren't picking up
Young Kiwis are heading overseas in record numbers, but are finding that the traditional London OE looks different than it did for earlier generations
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Lydia Ko's drive to succeed
30 Aug 2024How top athletes like Lydia Ko can pull themselves out of their performance slumps to rise again
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Stuck in Space
29 Aug 2024US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore won't be returning to Earth until February, after NASA decided it couldn't risk bringing them back on a potentially-faulty Boeing Starliner
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Waiheke's housing at a tipping point
Holiday homes sit empty while local families live in cars and on deteriorating boats.
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The huge impact of weight loss drugs
27 Aug 2024The volume of people taking the new and effective weight loss drugs has grown so big that it's shrinking food portions in the US
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Held for 18 years without charge - this is the life of a disabled man in NZ
26 Aug 2024The case of 'Jay', held indefinitely without charge for 18 years, is raising questions of how we treat our intellectually disabled community
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Don't panic - Mpox is not the new Covid
A more deadly strain of Mpox has ventured beyond African borders, but even though it will arrive here some time, there's no need to panic
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More economic pain ahead
Is New Zealand going through a bout of austerity ... or are we just in a funk after being battered by a parade of bad economic numbers?
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Fairness and equity in the police force
Internationally ground-breaking research from inside the police force has quantified the difference between how Māori and Pākehā are treated when it comes to law
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After nearly 30 years, the government is ditching strict GMO rules
21 Aug 2024The government announced a reversal to laws that effectively banned gene modification technology in New Zealand. Proponents of the change say it will save lives
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