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Health system shake-up: Why the overhaul should focus on local communities
8 Apr 2022Analysis - With the government set to launch a massive overhaul of the health sector later this year, experts say local communities should be involved in developing the health services that affect…
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Three more ways NZ can add to global pressure on Russia
Opinion - New Zealand should offer lethal military assistance to Ukraine, reduce the size of the Russian ambassador's office, and help hold war criminals accountable, law professor Alexander Gillespie…
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Diabetes and me: Wrestling with the causes of diabetes
6 Apr 2022It's not a particularly productive question, but it's the one that plagues me: How much is this my own fault? RNZ's Megan Whelan shares her journey of learning to live with type 2 diabetes.
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Why are some keen to ditch Covid-19 measures with cases still in the thousands?
4 Apr 2022Aotearoa will remain at the red traffic light setting, but other public health mandates will still be lifted, contributing to the sense that there's light at the end of the tunnel after two years.
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Disabled people excluded by government's Covid-19 response
4 Apr 2022Opinion - Loosening Covid-19 restrictions will leave disabled people and those with health conditions at higher risk of contracting Covid-19, Chris Ford writes.
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What is aphasia, the condition Bruce Willis lives with?
3 Apr 2022After a career spanning 40 years, 67-year-old Bruce Willis has stepped away from acting due to health issues, including a diagnosis of aphasia.
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Covid-19 journey: A scientist's warning from inside out
1 Apr 2022First Person - As more people in New Zealand find themselves face-to-face with a positive RAT, scientist Terry Taylor details his own experience of contracting Covid-19.
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Inflation has already eroded tomorrow's minimum wage rise
Analysis - Tomorrow's minimum wage increase to NZ$21.20 an hour should help a significant number of New Zealand's lowest paid workers and their families - 300,000 people, according to the government.
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NZ's Australia-friendly response to China-Solomon Islands security deal
30 Mar 2022Analysis - International analyst Geoffrey Miller looks at how New Zealand's positioning on the new China-Solomon Islands security pact fits into the bigger picture
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Change may be in air on NZ's sky-high emissions
30 Mar 2022Comment: As international travel resumes, Aotearoa should ensure flying doesn't reach 2019 levels, Robert McLachlan writes.
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Diabetes and me: My year of living right
30 Mar 2022In the first in a new weekly series, RNZ's Megan Whelan opens up about her journey with Type 2 diabetes.
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Week in politics: China's Pacific security pact shakes region
31 Mar 2022Analysis - Peter Wilson looks back at the week that was with China and Solomon Islands' draft security agreement, the controversial fair pay legislation, and David Seymour's "bottom line". Audio
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Public Interest Media Fund not media bribe but deal of the century
29 Mar 2022Opinion - Local Democracy Reporting's government funding enables regional journalists to seek the truth from publicly elected people and organisations, David Reid writes.
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NZ health restructure doomed to fall short unless funding model tackled
28 Mar 2022Opinion - This year significant reforms to New Zealand's health care system will be introduced. But to achieve its goals of an equitable system, the government needs to make deeper changes than it has…
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Unfriendly fire and plaudits as govt dismantles Covid-19 measures
Week in Politics: The Prime Minister announces a significant easing of Covid-19 restrictions - but she doesn't please everyone - and New Zealand offers non-lethal military aid to Ukraine.
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How important is NZ's new military support for Ukraine?
International analyst Geoffrey Miller examines New Zealand's new military assistance for Ukraine and asks whether more humanitarian aid could also be provided.
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Is this the 'end of the beginning' for Russia in Ukraine?
Analysis - There is a growing consensus that Russian forces have, or are on the cusp of, 'culminating' in Ukraine. Mick Ryan explains what that could mean.
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Why does NZ welcome Ukrainians fleeing war and not others?
Opinion - An estimated three million people have fled Ukraine, triggering an extraordinary response from governments, including New Zealand's, Jay Marlowe writes.
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Constant switches in care, but what progress has there been for Māori?
21 Mar 2022Analysis - That creaking sound you may have noticed at the Abuse in Care Royal Commission of Inquiry was indeed the familiar sound of a rather old pendulum swinging, David Cohen writes.
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Mediawatch: Today FM dives into radio wars, but gently
20 Mar 2022Mediawatch: Today FM is set to take on Newstalk ZB in a battle for talk radio supremacy - but its website is demonstrating a surprisingly tranquil approach to opinion-making. Audio
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Few legal protections for New Zealanders travelling to Ukraine to fight
20 Mar 2022Analysis: News that a NZ army veteran is already in Ukraine helping train civilian fighters raises important questions about what is lawful and what the risks of such actions might be.
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Let's run supermarkets as public utilities to cut high grocery prices
The country's supermarket sector could be governed in the same way as power and water instead of remaining as a private industry, Robert Hamlin writes.
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Why New Zealand is not really welcoming the rest of the world
16 Mar 2022Opinion - The government has failed to consider reuniting families from non-visa waiver countries yet again in its plan to reopen borders, Pooja Sundar writes.
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Three years on from the Christchurch mosque attacks, has anything changed?
18 Mar 2022Opinion - The third anniversary of the Christchurch mosque attacks has come and gone. Has anything changed? Have we learned anything? Are we better, worse, more apathetic?
