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Todd Energy applies for offshore gas mining permit
The company stressed it has no ‘firm’ plans to develop the field
The House has got its man in Brownlee
National MP Gerry Brownlee has been elected as Speaker with broad-based support, which bodes well
New climate minister defends searching for more fossil fuels
Climate Change Minister Simon Watts says the Government is committed to NZ’s climate targets, but won’t explain how they will be met
One woman, two chairs at top of NZ sport
Diana Puketapu-Lyndon has become one of sport’s most powerful women, chairing both NZ Cricket and the NZOC.
Misleading chicken packaging complaint to Commerce Commission
An animal rights group wants an investigation into chicken meat producers misleading consumers with their labelling
A non-solution in search of a non-problem – changing the Reserve Bank
When you don’t have much else to offer, reach for the cynical political expediency, writes associate professor Chris Eichbaum
MS patients lining up for new drug
Pharmac-funded Ocrevus can slow the progression of multiple sclerosis if only there were enough neurologists to prescribe it

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Hope shouldn’t be a strategy for charities
Many of the boards in the not-for-profit sector are bogged down in operational detail rather than effecting transformational change
Grant Robertson is to blame for the end of the Productivity Commission
Productivity Commission reports were deeply technical, impartial, and they mattered. So what went wrong?
NZ wins COP28 ‘fossil’ award for revoking offshore oil exploration ban
NZ in uncomfortable company at climate summit, as fuel company bosses deny importance of phasing out oil, gas and goal
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Peter Ellis series scoops two more honours
Melanie Reid’s investigative podcast has taken two gongs at the 2023 NZ Podcast Awards for her series on one of the country’s most controversial cases.
Boy in the Water only NZ podcast picked for Apple collection
Newsroom podcasts, including the successful first season of The Boy in the Water, take out multiple top spots in the Apple Podcasts charts for 2023
A young, browner future for NZ
Will the incoming government favour Pākehā Baby Boomers in its policies or will it look to the growing future generations of Māori and Pasifika?
Swim stars taste top-level surf lifesaving success
Two age-group swimming talents help New Zealand make waves at a top international surf lifesaving event in Europe, writes Dave Crampton
Colombia via Canberra for young Football Fern
Ruby Nathan is just 18, has played at two FIFA age group World Cups, and is now in the senior side to play Colombia
Where is she now? Silver Fern Anna Galvan
Former Silver Fern Anna Galvan feels she’s come full circle walking into Christchurch’s new indoor netball centre she plans to NZ’s best