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Winston Peters back in the driver’s seat for coalition negotiations
6 Nov 2023Opinion - Here go again. As he was in 1996 and 2017, Peters is in the veto position, holding the "balance of responsibility" and central to forming a government, Richard Shaw writes.
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How Phar Lap's skin, bones and heart became 'holy relics'
Opinion - When the legendary Phar Lap won the Melbourne Cup in 1930, he brought together strands of colonial history and mythology that are only now properly visible, Katie Pickles writes.
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The foreign affairs puzzle facing New Zealand's new government
7 Nov 2023Analysis - New Zealand's new government will need to hit the ground running on foreign affairs, Geoffrey Miller writes.
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Christopher Luxon gets the job as PM - and deal-making headache
Analysis - The margin is so thin that National will surely be pushed to seek a deal with New Zealand First.
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How Hamas aims to trap Israel in Gaza quagmire
4 Nov 2023Analysis - Hamas has prepared for a drawn-out war in the Gaza Strip and believes it will be able to force Israel to agree to a ceasefire, two sources close to the organisation's leadership say.
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Why people over 65 are better off in NZ than Australia if they want to work
25 Oct 2023Analysis - If Australia adopted NZ's approach, it could have an extra 500,000 willing workers, Peter Martin writes
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Will the ‘kōhanga reo generation’ transform politics in Aotearoa?
25 Oct 2023Analysis: The 2023 election saw a changing of the guard in Māori political representation with several verteran MPs losing their seats to members of the "kōhanga reo generation".
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'Claustrophobia', 'rowdy fans': Taking the Paris metro during the Rugby World Cup
24 Oct 2023First Person - How did one of the world's greatest transport systems fare during the Rugby World Cup? RNZ reporters Tiffany Salmond and Jogai Bhatt compare it to Auckland.
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Week in Politics: The 'multiple reasons' why Labour lost so badly
20 Oct 2023Analysis - Labour holds 35 seats in Parliament and of those only 17 are electorate seats. How could it lose so badly and give up so many seats to National?
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The Left's postmortem on Labour's defeat
17 Oct 2023Analysis - What are leftwing and progressive commentators saying about what went wrong and what Labour now needs to do?
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Whakaari/ White Island court case will change the level of accepted risk in NZ's tourism industry
4 Nov 2023Analysis - A court decision finding the owners of Whakaari / White Island guilty of breaching workplace safety laws could have implications for adventure tourism, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and James…
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The Week in Politics: It all depends on Peters
3 Nov 2023Analysis: Final election results mean Christopher Luxon must reach an agreement with Winston Peters before he can form a government. It wasn't what he wanted, Peter Wilson writes.
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Power Play: Time to get down to business now wait for final vote count is over
3 Nov 2023The final hand is about to be dealt in the 2023 election, but it could still be some time before the players fully reveal their cards.
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Solving the climate adaptations that can make problems worse
1 Nov 2023Opinion - A global climate adaptation industry is sometimes imposing solutions that backfire at the cost of vulnerable communities, write Ritodhi Chakraborty and Claire Burgess.
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The Week in Politics: 'Eerie silence' surrounds coalition negotiations
27 Oct 2023Analysis - Coalition negotiations between National, ACT and NZ First are underway but next to nothing is known about them, and Winston Peters is called on to apologise for a "bizarre" tweet.
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NZ workplace rules will change again with each new government
30 Oct 2023Analysis - Whether you are a worker or an employer, the office or factory floor is likely to move under your feet over the next three years, researchers say.
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How a red card could ruin the Rugby World Cup final
28 Oct 2023Rules are central to the integrity of the game, but rugby union would be improved if sendings-off were reserved for genuinely bad actors, writes Clive Thompson.
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Kiwis deserve a 'right to repair' their own appliances
26 Oct 2023Opinion -There was a time when the family washing machine would last decades, but those days are long gone.
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NZ election 2023: Labour out, National in – either way, neoliberalism wins again
18 Oct 2023Opinion - Regardless of the election result, a form of austerity was always going to win, Toby Boraman writes.
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Failing to feel rugby fervour amid growing Middle East crisis
19 Oct 2023First Person - The 2023 Rugby World Cup exists in an alternate reality - or at least, that's how it feels covering it, Jogai Bhatt writes.
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With every fibre of their being - an epic All Black victory
15 Oct 2023Analysis - From the blistering start to the stomach-churning finish, this had everything you want in a test match. Video
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As election uncertainty settles, NZ must unify climate vision - councillor
15 Oct 2023Opinion - With the window of time for transformational emissions reductions closing, we cannot afford to remain in a state of defeat for long, writes councillor Sophie Handford.
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Election 2023: National and Labour both face urgent issues
15 Oct 2023Analysis - National could face a crisis of expectation after promising so much, while Labour has to rebuild its devastated ranks, writes Peter Wilson.
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Analysis: Why we still don't know who the new government will be
15 Oct 2023It is odds on that Christopher Luxon and his resurgent National Party will lead the new government but who will join him and in what capacity remains undecided, writes Andrew Geddis.