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What is it about Winston Peters and natural health products?
19 Dec 2023NZ First has enjoyed the financial and political support of part of the natural health sector for many years. They're celebrating the party's immediate action upon returning to power.
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The 'affirmative action' scheme that ACT wants reviewed
18 Dec 2023A review of the long-standing admissions programme for Māori and Pasifika medical students is either 'pointless' or 'perfectly sensible', depending on who you ask.
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Grave fears at Netball NZ as Sky slashes bid for TV rights
15 Dec 2023Insiders are warning the sport is "close to having a crisis on its hands", with revenue set to plummet once the current broadcast deal ends.
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Why is it so hard to get help for young people in crisis?
14 Dec 2023What counts as "urgent" enough for immediate mental health care has become much narrower, says an experienced psychologist.
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More patients, not enough doctors - the problem that won't go away
13 Dec 2023People are asking for more help, more often with mental health distress. But we are short by several hundred psychologists and psychiatrists.
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'Robbing Peter to pay Paul' - How a $664m mental health scheme gave with one hand and took with another
12 Dec 2023Former Health Minister Andrew Little admits "there was a bit of cannibalising the system" in the largest mental health programme introduced by Labour.
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Lobbying firm was hit by hackers, documents reveal
12 Dec 2023Senate, which had a large contract with the Commerce Commission, was caught up in a cyber attack raising fears about the possible release of highly sensitive material.
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What if political donations were reined in?
10 Nov 2023What would happen if only voters - not unions or businesses - could donate to political parties? A plan to do exactly that exists, if the government wants to try it.
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What ever happened to that $2b for mental health?
11 Dec 2023Analysis - Even after huge sums of money have gone into the system, there is still nowhere near enough help available for people with mental health problems, Anusha Bradley writes.
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The meaning of Tāmaki: The most fascinating election result
28 Nov 2023When ACT's Brooke van Velden won the Auckland seat of Tāmaki, it was a triumph of shrewd campaigning. But it was also a failure for Christian conservatism in mainstream politics.
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The government's first press conference: Wilder than an episode of Love Island
24 Nov 2023Analysis - The three ring-masters of the coalition announcement had spectacularly different ideas about the point of the show.
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Revolving door for lobbyists 'can result in unfair access'
9 Nov 2023Justice Ministry warns of 'misuse of privileged information' by ministers entering the lobbying industry.
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Lobbying firm's 'wildly inappropriate' contracts at Commerce Commission revealed
7 Nov 2023The firm was embedded in Commerce Commission offices working on supermarket and energy industry inquiries, which had major implications for its corporate clients.
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How Christopher Luxon's NZ First gamble failed
4 Nov 2023Analysis - On election night, almost every party had something to cheer. But now, after the special votes have been counted, there's only one real winner.
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What might block ACT's Treaty referendum plan
2 Nov 2023There are three main objections to ACT's idea for a referendum on the Treaty of Waitangi.
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The election campaign fight for your eyeballs
20 Oct 2023Every political party poured money into online ads that flooded the internet for three months.
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Christopher Luxon gets the job as PM - and deal-making headache
15 Oct 2023Analysis - The margin is so thin that National will surely be pushed to seek a deal with New Zealand First.
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The parental puzzle for the mother of a teenage girl off the tracks
9 Oct 2023What happens when nowhere is safe for a 13-year-old fighting everyone - including her parents.
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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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