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Melissa Lee’s media Hail Mary comes up short
Analysis: The Minister for Media and Communications and veteran MP was given one last shot to prove she was across the issues plaguing the industry, but she didn’t deliver
Leaked document reveals millions of dollars of cuts at Te Whatu Ora
Minister says savings sought by Health NZ are beyond the Government’s wider public sector cuts
Lessons identified must become lessons learned for emergency preparedness
Opinion: It cost too much, apparently, to implement a ‘common operational picture’
Book of the Week: Talia Marshall on living legend Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku
Talia Marshall reviews one of the year’s best and most important books. Portraits by Jane Ussher.
New emergency services radio network plans off-track
A new radio network for emergency responders should already be up and running in Canterbury
Kiwis are learning how to fight climate change – polls
Bucking a common misconception, NZers no longer say recycling is the most effective action they can take to reduce climate pollution
Swimmer does everything and more to get to Paris
NZ records fall for butterfly swimmer Hazel Ouwehand as she goes under a fast qualifying time for the Paris Olympics. Now, the official wait.
‘Lesser Spotted Kiwi’ survives one of world’s toughest races
Shy ultrarunner Greig Hamilton became the first Kiwi to finish the infamous Barkley Marathons
The state of Taiwan’s silicon shield
Taiwan’s semiconductor industry is seen some as its ‘silicon shield’ against invasion – but how will overseas expansion affect that protection?
‘I was in awe of Germaine Greer’s face, her neck, her hands’
Sue Kedgley on Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku on Germaine Greer
Quake rules in for a shake-up
Today from The Detail: The Government’s hit pause on strict new building regulations over earthquake strengthening
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A new kind of city deal
Opinion: Making sure developers, local and central government, and landowners are all on the same page makes sense
West is best? How we stack up against Australia
Running a quick stock take on the NZ and Aussie economies, Australia comes out on top
Consultants are just the sound of cans being kicked down potholed roads
Opinion: We do not need to spend resources on identifying our problems because the big ones are already obvious
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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?