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New Zealand
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Duty lawyers stop work for a week to highlight poor pay, working conditions
3 minutes agoOne lawyer says they'd be getting paid double if their wage was adjusted for inflation over the past 25 years. Audio
Jevon McSkimming avoids jail sentence over possession of child sexual exploitation material
'Significant failure on the part of Corrections': Inmate dies after guards slow to answer intercom
Pacific
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Proposed passport sale scheme 'a non-issue', Tonga's PM-designate says
He was responding to concerns raised by Tongans locally and abroad about a citizenship by investment proposal touted to earn US$400 million over five years for the government.
One year after the Vanuatu earthquake, emotional aftershocks continue
Port Vila's wharf road gets ADB funding, a year on from deadly Vanuatu quake
Sport
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Is Antoine Dupont the best rugby player in the world?
5:00 am todayWatch: Pita Ahki spent seven seasons alongside some of rugby's biggest stars at Top 14 club Toulouse.
F1 unveils new terminology for 2026
FIFA agrees 50% rise in prize money for 2026 World Cup
Politics
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Principals warn new year-by-year curriculum won't work for mixed-level classes
5:00 am todayThe Principals Federation says most schools have at least some multi-level classrooms and it would take a much larger workforce to avoid that.
Plan to ditch flu tracking tool will leave big data gap, epidemiologist says
Minister Simeon Brown sets Health NZ 'efficiency targets' of $500m
World
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Who loves Trump? Apparently fewer people than ever
21 minutes agoAnalysis - A year ago, President Donald Trump spoke as though the American people had just delivered him a landslide for the ages.
Vladimir Putin says Russia will take more land in Ukraine if Europe sinks peace moves
Alleged Bondi Beach shooter Naveed Akram charged by NSW Police over terrorist attack
Comment & Analysis
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What NZ needs to watch as Australia reforms gun laws after the Bondi terror attack
17 Dec 2025Analysis - The Bondi terror attack on Sunday has seen Australian federal, state and territory governments agree to the biggest overhaul of firearms regulations since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.
6 takeaways from Trump chief of staff Susie Wiles’ unvarnished interviews
Racist and antisemitic false information spreads online following Bondi Beach terrorism attack
Local Democracy Reporting
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Hawke's Bay cities in level 3 water restrictions
16 Dec 2025Hastings and Napier water restrictions have been upgraded to Level 3, meaning sprinkler use is now banned.
What is Local Democracy Reporting?
'Take a mask': Rotorua tourist toilets not up to standard
In Depth
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Feral cat trapping could get easier
17 Dec 2025The paperwork currently required to legally trap feral cats could be replaced with a simpler online system, after criticism from hunters.
Lost in transition: The businesses trapped by New Zealand’s energy crisis
Tom Phillips’ firearms licence revoked months before second disappearance, documents show
Te Ao Māori
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3000 hectares returned in one of country's longest land disputes
17 Dec 2025Māori landowners will have the land returned, and receive $420 million in compensation, in a landmark agreement with the Crown, ending questions going back to the 1830s. Audio
Kōkiri Marae adds period care to Christmas kai parcels as costs bite
Parliament bill set to return historic Māori site in Northland to Ngāpuhi
Business
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2025 the year of first-home buyers - and biggest rent drop in 30 years
Latest housing data shows first-home buyers made 28 percent of purchases nationwide in October and November.
Singaporean fund manager buys commercial site in Auckland's Wynyard Quarter for $55m
What do new bank rules mean for home loans
Country
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Privatised meat inspections could increase costs, reduce flexibility - report
Meat inspectors gathered at Parliament on Monday to express their concerns about the proposed changes.
Harraways invests $11m into NZ's only working oat mill
Strong agricultural sector boosts PGG Wrightson
Environment
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The farmers working to shrink the environmental footprint of their cows
16 Dec 2025Can the planting of special crops and experiments with new winter grazing systems make a real difference? Audio
Climate change could claim nearly all of NZ's glaciers, research shows
Emergency set net fishing ban to protect threatened hoiho around Otago Peninsula extended
Media & Technology
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The best games we played in 2025
16 Dec 2025More than 200 titles dropped this year, here are some we loved playing the most.
It’s not you - some fonts feel different
Tova O'Brien announced as new Breakfast presenter
Identity
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How did we become known as 'Kiwis'?
16 Oct 2024How did residents of Aotearoa New Zealand come to be called by the name of a flightless brown bird? Audio
Turning Palmerston North into the 'capital of drag' in Aotearoa
X-plainer: Who are Generation X?
IndoNZ
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Overturned board election fires up concerns over postal voting
17 Dec 2025A judge has ordered a new election to take place for seats an Auckland board over manipulation of voting papers.
Migrant bus drivers want strict language rules for residency eased
Papatoetoe faces new local body election after voter fraud claims