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Obama, the ‘hopey-changey guy’, tries to close the deal for Harris
12 Oct 2024Analysis: Exactly 16 years ago, an impossibly young-looking Barack Obama was barnstorming through Ohio. This month, he was back.
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How to get renewable energy from our wastewater ponds
10 Oct 2024As the country prepares to meet growing energy demands, the variability of wind, solar and hydroelectric power has made year-round electricity generation hard to ensure.
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How Middle East war could derail global economy
Analysis: A day after oil prices surged, US president Joe Biden warned Israel against strikes on Iran's oil facilities for good reason - any attack could ignite another bout of inflation, and possibly…
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How Hurricane Milton rapidly exploded in less than a day
9 Oct 2024It went from barely hurricane strength to a deadly Category 5 storm in less than a day - here's how.
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Manawanui: How to salvage the ship?
8 Oct 2024Analysis - Speed will be of the essence as salvage crews attempt to stop fuel leaking from the sunken ship, Christopher Battershill writes.
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Too good to be true? Study shows people are wary of freebies
8 Oct 2024Research participants who were offered a free cookie plus payment thought maybe the cookies were poisoned
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The building report showed a problem - what now?
RNZ's money correspondent Susan Edmunds answers your burning money questions.
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Dunedin Hospital rebuild had been held up as an example
Analysis - That was up until last week's bombshell that cost blow-outs are forcing a rethink.
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Seven things to know about the US vice presidential debate
2 Oct 2024Analysis - It was a surprisingly cordial debate between Tim Walz and JD Vance, but it revealed stark differences. Jeremy Rees looks at what we learned.
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The end of the Foodstuffs merger won't fix supermarkets
2 Oct 2024Instead of adjudicating on a merger, the commission should be given the power to break up the two Foodstuffs entities themselves, two experts argue.
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Is Shane Jones right about Indonesian coal?
2 Oct 2024Analysis - Resources Minister Shane Jones loves talking about Indonesian coal, but do his claims stack up?
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How floating solar panels could help solve NZ's energy crisis
24 Sep 2024Analysis - Placing solar panels on wastewater ponds could tackle two problems at once: high power prices and algal growth, Faith Jeremiah writes.
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Peters and Clark united on UN failings
23 Sep 2024Analysis - Winston Peters and Helen Clark disagree more often than not lately, but on this they're united. Audio
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Why sentencing reforms in NZ will annoy judges and clog the courts
23 Sep 2024Analysis - The Luxon government surely has little sense of irony, writes Kris Gledhill.
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Jimmy Carter at 100 - the American president who just keeps going and going
29 Sep 2024Analysis - Jimmy Carter is the longest-lived US president, and as he turns 100 years old this week, it turns out he was also pretty much the last of his kind.
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Wellington train woes: Confusion rife during industrial action
22 Sep 2024First person - By Friday, commuters like me were getting more used to randomness. But here, on the Friday evening platform, it reached a new level, Phil Pennington writes.
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XEC: The rapidly spreading new Covid-19 variant
Analysis - A new Covid-19 variant is spreading rapidly and could soon become the dominant variant around the globe, experts say.
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Laurie Anderson pays tribute to an aviation pioneer on Amelia
24 Sep 2024The legendary avant-garde artist's latest release is a musical retelling of Amelia Earhart's final flight.
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Review: Passage du Desir by Johnny Blue Skies
22 Sep 2024Elliott Childs finds Sturgill Simpson's first release under a pseudonym to be more of a progression than a reinvention.
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What provocative pizza ads reveal about shifting religious attitudes
22 Sep 2024Where do lines of acceptability or offensiveness get drawn?
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I'm losing my job, can I pull out of purchasing a house? - Ask Susan
RNZ's money correspondent Susan Edmunds answers your questions.
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Why the case for higher speed limits is fatally flawed
Analysis - Proponents argue even marginal time savings for some drivers justify the changes, Timothy Welch writes, but at what cost?
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Why can’t the All Blacks close out test matches?
22 Sep 2024Bledisloe I gave us the now very familiar story of this All Black side, writes Jamie Wall. How can they fix it? Video
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'Crime wave' puts government's target in doubt
20 Sep 2024Analysis - Crime throws the government's reduction target into doubt and Labour's Chris Hipkins has to deal with a bad poll.
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