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The challenges NZ foreign policy faces as the Ukraine war grinds on
Opinion - One year to the day since Russian tanks ran over the Ukraine border, the world is more dangerous than ever. For New Zealand, the war has also presented a unique foreign policy challenge.
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Week in Politics: Luxon's 'low energy' speech and the first head-to-head
24 Feb 2023Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luxon go head-to-head, and Grant Robertson is under the gun over how to pay for the cyclone rebuild.
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How Air New Zealand went from crash landing to stratospheric
23 Feb 2023Analysis - As the walls of Covid-19 closed in on the global aviation sector in 2020, Air New Zealand prepared itself for turbulence.
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Foster starts the countdown clock on his All Black coaching career
22 Feb 2023A couple of weeks is a long, long time in rugby. It took that amount of time for the All Black coaching debate to mutate back from a benign conversation around the country's pub tables and living…
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Time to invest in native planting after Bola pine failures
22 Feb 2023Opinion - We urgently need to shift Aotearoa's forestry policy from exotic tree plantations to a focus on diverse native forests to protect against future extreme weather, David Norton writes.
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Cities urgently need to become 'spongier' – but system change will be costly
22 Feb 2023Two extreme and deadly weather events within the first two months of 2023 have brought the consequences of climate change into sharp focus, Alex Lo and Faith Chan write.
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Cyclone raises serious questions about where we build
21 Feb 2023Opinion - Given the death toll, it's important we consider the impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle sensitively. But we must also begin looking into the history of land-use and planning decisions in areas…
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Trans-Tasman lessons from flooding offer NZ a guide for future
20 Feb 2023Opinion - Repeated flooding events in New Zealand and Australia share common elements, and Australia could provide a guide for rebuilding with better resilience, writes Iftekhar Ahmed. Video
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Cyclone Gabrielle battered our homes - but brought our community closer
19 Feb 2023First Person - RNZ's Anusha Bradley woke on Tuesday to muddy brown water lapping at her back door. In the week since, a virtual black-out brought her closer to the community she calls home.
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NZ must change how it grows trees on fragile land
17 Feb 2023Opinion - we need to ask why we harvest pine forests on such fragile land, and what needs to change to prevent erosion debris and slash being washed from harvested land, Mark Bloomberg writes.
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Week in Politics: Gabrielle and aftermath test Chris Hipkins' leadership
18 Feb 2023Analysis - The way Chris Hipkins deals with the cyclone recovery will define his leadership the way the pandemic defined Jacinda Ardrern's, and will certainly have an impact on the October election.
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Week in Politics: Has Chris Hipkins done enough?
10 Feb 2023Analysis - Prime Minister Chris Hipkins announces the government's awaited policy reset and meets his Australian counterpart in Canberra, while politicians tone down their Waitangi speeches and the…
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More needs to be done to protect our differences in the age of AI
11 Feb 2023Opinion - The buzz around artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like ChatGPT is palpable. People are both optimistic and frightened by the possibilities of these tools, Collin Bjork writes.
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What can be salvaged from the wreckage of the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger?
9 Feb 2023Opinion - A public service publisher model which provided contestable funding might be one way to salvage something from the failed TVNZ-RNZ merger, Peter Thompson writes.
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Auckland floods: The recovery is just starting, in every sense
8 Feb 2023Opinion - We know from previous disasters in New Zealand that those who have been affected sometimes feel forgotten as time goes on, writes Kirsty Ross.
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Effective reforms for NZ health system need to think big and long-term
8 Feb 2023Analysis - New Zealand's medical system has been struggling for several decades, Robin Gauld writes.
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More history to the Hutt than just Hipkins
7 Feb 2023Opinion -The Hutt Valley has something of a reputation for dullness - but it shouldn't, David Cohen argues.
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Advanced AI in criminals' hands is a danger
7 Feb 2023Opinion - Generative AI can write essays, code software, create music and art, and hold conversations. It is exciting, but what happens when they're turned to illegal uses?
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Meng Foon on Waitangi Day: A day for difficult conversations
6 Feb 2023Opinion - Meng Foon says Waitangi Day is many things to many people, including an opportunity to hold difficult but necessary conversations.
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NZ tax system under the spotlight: What needs to change to make it fair?
5 Feb 2023Opinion - Generally, people don't object to fairness. The problem is that we don't all agree on what fairness looks like - especially when it comes to tax.
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What airlines can learn from the missing luggage fiasco
5 Feb 2023Opinion - When an essential part of a wheelchair got lost in the pile of other increasingly missing luggage, it prompted Chris Ford to think about the lessons that could be learned from this.
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Wayne Brown: the evolution of an apology
Opinion - For Auckland mayor Wayne Brown, sorry seems to be the hardest word to say. Newsroom's Matthew Scott looks behind the scenes at a difficult week for the new mayor. Video
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Non-Māori are embracing te reo - but there’s more to it than language
4 Feb 2023Opinion - As we approach another Waitangi Day, we should be thinking again about what Te Tiriti o Waitangi means.
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It's a multi-sensory extravaganza as sweet Ed Sheeran wins over crowd
3 Feb 2023Review - He's one of the most famous music artists on the globe, selling more than 150 million records worldwide, and he seems genuinely chuffed to be performing at Wellington's Sky Stadium.