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Matched KiwiSaver pledge an important step forward for gender pay gap

It will take more than a policy increasing the retirement savings of women on parental leave to properly tackle gender gaps, but it's a start

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Disability funding not best practice – experts

Experts say disabled people deserve greater flexibility and choice when it comes to managing the money they qualify for, and that the government is a long way off its promise to make disability support systems fair

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What Covid has in store for winter

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer say forewarned is forearmed when it comes to potentially spiking Covid numbers in the winter months

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Tracking the guns

The missing piece of New Zealand's firearms reforms falls in place this weekend – a long-called for registry which will tell us who owns what, and where guns go when they're sold.

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Ruapehu sale: Conservation concessions sign-off is the great unknown

Despite liquidation proceedings, Ruapehu Alpine Lifts will probably be sold as planned.

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Self-portrait: Emma Espiner

"You never really know what’s going on in somebody else’s home, do you?"

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How and why exercise works on the brain

Research shows the potential for exercise to delay the onset and slow the progression of disorders such as MS, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, and even depression, writes Dr Victor Dieriks. But could we get the benefits without working out?

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Ruapehu creditors fail to approve sale options

The company will be liquidated in court tomorrow, with sales to the preferred bidders still a possibility.

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Independent review proposes new tools to finance local roads, parks and homes

A long-awaited review into the future for NZ's cash-strapped local government will recommend new ways to fund community needs. Jonathan Milne reports.

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What it's like to be a high school teacher in New Zealand

Tens of thousands of secondary teachers have walked off the job this year in a fight for better pay and conditions. Just how bad is it?

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The little EV pilot with global potential

A Hyundai light electric vehicle has been quietly touring New Zealand’s roads for the past six months gathering data around battery life to help companies prepare a business case for a switch from combustion engines to EVs.

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What if all Māori went on the general roll

More than 442,000 people who are eligible to vote are not registered – a population larger than Hamilton, Rotorua and Tauranga combined. Many of them are from marginalised communities. Many are Māori. Aaron Smale runs the numbers

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In underfunding universities, we have so much to lose

The unprecedented scale of the downsizing of our universities will undercut the future prosperity and democratic values of Aotearoa. Catherine Abou-Nemeh looks at the consequences.

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Painting it black in new Flag Ferns

Often overlooked in favour of rugby, American football is growing in NZ. Merryn Anderson catches up with one of the women on our first national flag football team.

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Hipkins confirms Xi meeting as US-China tensions in spotlight

Top US diplomat meets Chinese leader, as details of our PM's own trip are released.

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Books vs computer games

Author Bob Kerr asks his grandson Owen Coombes to explain the difference between books and games.

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Why Labour should rule out a wealth tax

The Green Party’s proposed wealth tax of 2.5 percent on net wealth above $2m per person would harm investment and productivity

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Ethnicity a factor in surgery waitlists for years

During Covid-19 Auckland medical professionals identified Māori and Pasifika were disproportionately waiting for surgery compared with other population groups and sought to fix it when operating theatres were back up and running after the 2020 lockdowns.

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The mystery of NZ's weekday-only digital banking system

The world has had phone banking for almost 40 years; internet banking has been ubiquitous for 20 years. Computers don’t operate solely Monday to Friday. So why on earth is it only in the past couple of weeks that NZ’s payments system has geared up to work weekends?

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Stuart Nash breached official information laws - Ombudsman

The former minister breached the Official Information Act by improperly withholding emails in which he discussed confidential Cabinet discussions with two of his political donors, Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier found.

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Govt consults on removing forestry from ETS

The Government is consulting on four options to amend the carbon market to better incentivise cutting climate pollution instead of offsetting it by planting trees.

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National could pay off teacher loans

The National Party hints at a repeat for student teachers of its incentives to attract more nurses, including some kind of bonding scheme and paying towards their student loans

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Does 'social cohesion' actually matter?

Trying to generate trust and consensus without substantive social change is a fool’s errand – history shows the disintegration of trust in the old order is essential to such change

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Southern Green Hydrogen poses $12b+ cost to society - report

Meridian Energy's proposed large green hydrogen electrolyser in Southland would raise power prices but have a relatively modest impact on climate pollution, a new report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has found

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Where to next for a Kermadec ocean sanctuary?

It was announced to great fanfare in 2015, but years of negotiations have failed to secure an agreement over the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary.

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