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The number of bail breaches 'not manageable', police say
4 Oct 2023An internal police review of bail finds its system "far under-estimating" the proportion of high risk offenders.
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Mount Maunganui: Life in a polluted air shed
3 Oct 2023People are dying while pollution continues to waft over schools, marae and family homes in a beloved beachside town.
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Millions more spent promoting gas guzzlers than small cars or EVs
Car makers say they are going green. But they still spend much more advertising their biggest gas guzzlers than their smaller, less profitable EVs.
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Publicity-shy 'promoters' spending up on the election campaign
11 Oct 2023Some of the most active campaigners are new to politics. Another promoter is a wealthy foreign businessman.
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The falsehood Luxon was allowed to repeat in the leaders' debate
20 Sep 2023Analysis - It's clearly wrong that there are no health outcomes that have got any better under Labour. So why was Christopher Luxon allowed to repeat this?
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National's anti-fluoride, anti-mandate MP-in-waiting
18 Sep 2023A National Party candidate favoured to win election questioned Covid death statistics and said "lower socio economics fill their tap water with raro".
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New medical school a 'present' to future National government - uni boss
5 Sep 2023The chancellor of the University of Waikato was intimately involved in helping National develop policy, raising questions about independence.
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Birthing injury claims thousands below ACC estimates
8 Sep 2023Nearly 5000 birth injury claims have been accepted by the ACC since cover was expanded nearly a year ago.
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What is 'race-baiting' and who decides?
4 Oct 2023Analysis - A policy is labelled racist. Then that accusation is itself called racist. Are we getting anywhere with any of this?
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'Fully embedded': The food lobby in Aotearoa
27 Sep 2023How the food industry throws its weight - and its money - around in sport, politics, nutrition and education.
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Anti co-governance website using 'quite deceitful' tactics
31 Aug 2023Hobson's Pledge is accused of 'astroturfing' in its campaign designed to recruit new migrants.
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How agriculture killed a climate tax, again
18 Aug 2023Crown vs Cow: The inside story of Labour's drawn-out failure to regulate our worst climate polluter.
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The awful secrets of the Jehovah's Witnesses
16 Aug 2023How the Jehovah's Witnesses have kept the presence of child abusers hidden from the knowledge of the people they share the church with.
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Evidence in child sex abuse cases 'destroyed'
15 Aug 2023A Jehovah Witness elder claims he was told to destroy confidential church documents, including those relating to child sexual abuse cases.
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Convictions, accusations of child sex abuse against current Jehovah's Witnesses
14 Aug 2023Men convicted for child sex abuse or with allegations against them are active members of the Jehovah's Witnesses - unbeknownst to most in the church.
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'Overnight, I went to being something evil'
10 Aug 2023For people who leave or are kicked out of the Jehovah's Witnesses, a process of 'shunning' follows. They describe a cruel, harrowing process. But the Witnesses call it a 'loving provision'.
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The 'corner dairy campaign' quietly backed by big tobacco
Tobacco companies say a shop owner is "the driving voice" behind a campaign against a smokefree initiative. The truth is more complicated.
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My friend, the conspiracy theorist
25 Jul 2023Disinformation and the dark web turned a close friend into a woman Sarah feared would try to snatch her kids from her.
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'Astonishment' at lobbyists advising on their own rules
24 Jul 2023Unnamed lobbyists are advising Transparency International on the rules and ethics of their own industry.
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How to spot PM Chris Hipkins trying to change the subject
4 Aug 2023Hipkins - just like his predecessor Jacinda Ardern - uses a well-worn tactic to change the direction of a difficult interview.
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Is Christopher Luxon the real Mr Chippy?
14 Jun 2023An analysis of hours of interviews suggests National's leader has more positive things to say.
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'Incredible' $1 million paid to former minister by university
13 Jun 2023Steven Joyce has been paid $966,000 for various roles at Waikato University over three years.
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The Interview: Who talks the most?
13 Jun 2023How Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins square up against the different news networks and hosts.
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Tax, spend and crisis - the obsessions of an opposition leader
12 Jun 2023The words and phrases National leader Christopher Luxon says over and over again - and how they dramatically differ from Labour's leaders.
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