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How we can improve NZ's messy climate change regulation
23 Nov 2021Analysis - Like other countries, New Zealand has both international and domestic targets to reduce emissions, but they run on different timelines and are based on different assumptions.
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The end-of-year tours: What we learned
23 Nov 2021Analysis - A few days after the end of the All Blacks' and Black Ferns' season, it's not so much a case of dust settling as nuclear fallout, Jamie Wall writes.
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You can leave Auckland on December 15. But should you?
Opinion - Aucklanders are already booking summer holiday houses in record numbers. Leonie Hayden argues for putting off that road trip just a little longer.
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COP26's ocean acidification failure: States must protect the world's oceans
20 Nov 2021The COP26 summit may come to be regarded as a failure or an important milestone, but it certainly failed to address the other climate change problem - ocean acidification, wites Karen Scott.
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Risks of increasing Covid-19 disinformation, extremism in New Zealand
Analysis - Last week's Covid-19 protest outside Parliament served as a warning that New Zealand is not immune to the kinds of anger seen overseas, writes professor Alexander Gillespie.
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Stop saying children are 'resilient'
Opinion - We don't protect children by saying they're resilient. We build resilience through policy that supports children by improving systems and providing resources, writes Dr Julie Spray.
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All Blacks and Black Ferns: In a desperate land
21 Nov 2021Comment: It's not exactly the end of the world, but Doors frontman, bad poet and former Parisian resident Jim Morrison's words ring true for the end of this All Black season, writes Jamie Wall. Video
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Week in Politics: Changes are on the way - for all of us
19 Nov 2021Analysis: The country is on the brink of moving to the new traffic light system, Auckland's border opening date is set and vaccine certificates are launched. A new poll shows Labour falling but…
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Opinion: Electric cars alone won't save the planet
17 Nov 2021Opinion - Electric vehicles give us the illusion we are dramatically reducing our environmental impact while changing virtually nothing about our lifestyles, argues Timothy Welch.
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Good design lies at heart of normalising disability - new ministry must prioritise it
Opinion - While working as a nurse in a busy hospital I began to use a magnifying glass, as I could no longer read the small print on medication vials, Sally Britnell writes.
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Has the law got the right balance on vaccine mandates?
Opinion - Vaccine mandates are now in force for about 40 percent of New Zealand's workforce, but the question of what breaches of which rights are justifiable in a public health emergency is not clear…
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Jamie Wall: All Blacks drown in the Green Room
14 Nov 2021Ireland have beaten the All Blacks for the third time in five years. Jamie Wall writes it's not so much that New Zealand played particularly badly, it's that they were barely allowed to play at all.
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