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Short story: The Islands of Arthur Trimble

"He imagines the rattling windows of his bach": a sad seaside saga by Majella Cullinane.

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Family tree key to Twigg's fifth Olympic bid

Taking her her young family around the world as she rows is a key factor in Emma Twigg's decision to defend her Olympic single sculls title at next year's Paris Olympics. And, Andy Hay writes, the next Emma Twigg could be waiting in the wings at the Maadi Cup next week.

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Posie Parker wins the beautiful freedom to make an ugly argument

High Court Justice David Gendall regretfully allows anti-trans activist to enter NZ, but warns the expression of her views may be harmful to NZ's vulnerable rainbow community. Jonathan Milne does his best to be civil.

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Flood-affected Aucklanders breathe a sigh of rates relief

Although Auckland Council’s big cleanup following this year’s extreme weather events continues, “things are getting more difficult at this point”.

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This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias.

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A storm in a lolly jar? The pineapple chew controversy

A Levin chocolate maker is in hot water over potentially misrepresenting its products. Why?

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Twinkle toes teen runs riot in world sevens

Jorja Miller has quickly become one of the key players in the successful Black Ferns Sevens in her first season on the world series circuit, and it's a unique combination of sports that's helped her reach the top, Merryn Anderson discovers.

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Airport share sales fraught with difficulty – but retaining ownership is costly

The council's proposal to sell Auckland Airport shares is an uncanny throwback to the sale of the government's Wellington Airport shares, writes Andrew Bevin.

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One small step towards banning ‘forever chemicals’

PFAS in cosmetics enter the environment through the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe

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Bring back the Ministry of Works

The now defunct ministry is the kind of agency needed to fix our current infrastructure disaster - not Civil Defence and independent sub-contracting and consulting firms that scratch impotently away at the ever-growing consequences of climate change.

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Risk of political violence this election high – Shaw

There’s a very real possibility someone will be injured, or worse, during this year’s election campaign, warns Greens’ co-leader James Shaw

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Trans health advice scrubbed after complaints

Pressure from the public, including anti-transgender activists, contributed to the Ministry of Health's decision to remove health advice regarding puberty blockers from its website.

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Auckland pulls a Brexit - on the mayor's casting vote

The great southern joke that New Zealand does indeed end at the Bombay Hills, but that it starts at Bluff, takes on a new hue now with Auckland Council breaking away from the sector organisation Local Government NZ

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Newsroom podcast shortlisted for international award

The debut podcast produced by Newsroom Investigates has been selected as a finalist in two categories of a prestigious international award

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Warring building supplies firms tie up critical NZ land with 999-year covenants

Big building supply companies have fended off competition by wrapping desirable blocks of land in legal constraints on generations of NZers, alarming the Commerce Commission into issuing a far-reaching warning. Jonathan Milne reports.

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Women refs rise with Aupiki

NZ Rugby wants to triple the number of female rugby referees - starting with the rise of Natarsha Ganley to Super Rugby honours, and handing a whistle to an Aupiki star player in a new scholarship. Suzanne McFadden writes.

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Disaster-in-waiting warn south’s farmers

Cyclone Gabrielle’s hammering of Hawkes Bay has ignited fears in Southland of bridges failing and farmland flooding through “mismanagement” of accumulated gravel.

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Behind the story: Lobbying and the backdoor of our democracy

The Detail talks to RNZ's Guyon Espiner about his series on the murky world of lobbying.

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More 'how' less 'what' for social services

Letting people shop and choose their groceries rather than being handed a pre-made food parcel may seem trivial but there are calls it should serve as a blueprint for the wider administration of social services.

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Solomons PM joins Pacific push for NZ visa waiver access

With more than half NZ's rejected visitor visa applications coming from just nine Pacific nations, Manasseh Sogavare made his plea to visiting NZ MPs – the start of a flood of nations competing to prove their credentials in the region.

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Book of the Week: Terfs, and other haters

This week's anti-trans rally is straight out of the right-wing playbook

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How the Rakaia turned into a pipe for irrigators

Problems with protecting New Zealand's biggest braided river were predicted years ago, documents filed in the Environment Court show.

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China will test NZ's fence-straddling diplomacy as never before

PM Chris Hipkins brushes the Aukus security pact away as not relevant to us because of its nuclear component, but our likely Aukus involvement relating to technology will have far-reaching consequences, argues Peter Dunne

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Healing te taiao: Moving on from peak pine

More than half of Aotearoa may need to be in native bush to merely blunt future worsening storms, but without such revolutionary change, the country could descend into a spiral of social, ecological, and economic damage.

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Why many in Muriwai can't move on

The Detail goes to Muriwai to find out how residents are putting their lives back together after Cyclone Gabrielle.

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