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Prime Minister jumps the gun in Thailand
The Prime Minister has committed to resuming direct flights to Thailand. But it’s not a promise he will be able to deliver on anytime soon.
The island where people’s stories are paramount
Today from The Detail: On Great Barrier Island the media landscape is bucking the national trend – it’s flourishing
Jessica Tater has ambition without borders
In our weekly showcase of future leaders and inspirational young NZers from the Hyundai Pinnacle Programme, Jessica Tater wants to work for Doctors Without Borders
The outlook for engineering specialists looks bleak
Opinion: Delays getting to the starting line of new programmes of work are causing significant disruption across the sector
Newsroom welcomes the Secret Diary
Steve Braunias introduces his much-loved satirical Secret Diary series to Newsroom
Short story: Calf Creek, by Anna Scaife
A gothic story of two New Zealand hillbillies in a stand-off with two kids in the bush
Eliza wants more than a last tango in Paris
Back on track after years of injury, Olympian Eliza McCartney is looking towards a big future in pole vault – while championing the environment
On the fringes of the Gallipoli battlefield
Today from The Detail: A new book sheds light on part of the Gallipoli campaign a world away from the horrors of battle
This week’s bestselling books – April 26
The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, plus win tickets to the Auckland Writers Festival
Just Life exit from NZX puts listed company regulation under microscope
Just Life’s chief executive says the exchange’s regulatory burden outweighs any benefits to small business
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Child protection decimation a ‘callous razor gang response’
Opinion: The message is clear – the neoliberal state will set the social agenda
Lessons identified must become lessons learned for emergency preparedness
Opinion: It cost too much, apparently, to implement a ‘common operational picture’
Familiar laxity on show in Cyclone Gabrielle findings
Comment: The Government’s emergency management inquiry doesn’t make for easy reading
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Restored: the Newsroom story the Crown and court didn’t want you to see – ‘Two wrongs don’t make a right’
Finally, after a three-year legal fight, Newsroom can again show you the sad tale of four young children who were victims of a ‘reverse uplift’
Restored story: Kelvin Davis to Oranga Tamariki: ‘Please explain’
This story reappears today after a three-year legal fight by Newsroom to overturn a High Court injunction on our coverage of this reverse uplift case.
Restored story: Oranga Tamariki’s new wave of trauma
A Newsroom documentary revealed a disturbing Oranga Tamariki child uplift case – but was banned from publication for three years by a High Court order.
King of backs begins her Black Ferns reign
Hannah King’s call-up to the new Black Ferns squad comes after mentor, Kendra Cocksedge, helped her make a life-changing decision
Where is she now? Sonia Waddell
Olympic rower Sonia Waddell, also a competitive national athlete and cyclist, is now coaching her highly promising daughter’s school athletics team, and loving it.
Missy rustles to stardom in Canada
A young Kiwi basketballer makes a huge impact in her first year of a college scholarship, named Canadian women’s player of the year
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Suppliers swamped with deals as supermarket grace period ends
One supplier told Newsroom it was handling ‘dozens and dozens’ of varying agreements in place of just one
Māori and PI spaces at unis no place for wusses or MP’s reckons
Comment: The importance of ‘space’ – observations of a Pākehā working in a ‘segregated’ Māori/Pasifika university programme
Maths teaching fails pupils by ignoring cognitive science findings
Opinion: We have to prioritise the science of learning over political expediency
How Christchurch got sucked into an eye-wateringly expensive cathedral rebuild
The great and the good ‘saved’ Christ Church Cathedral from demolition but is a $248m repair too costly?