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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The long road to Paris' rebound

One of NZ's brightest netball talents, Paris Lokotui has returned to the court 10 months after knee reconstruction. Now she hopes her tough journey back will pave a better way for other Māori and Pasifika players.

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Credit Suisse rescue package shows why our banks shouldn't pay big dividends

This is why bank shareholders shouldn't expect such big returns – their risk is lower. In what other industry, asks Jonathan Milne, would they be rescued by regulators?

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Sympathy cards and the lessons of birds

An author on the death of a baby and "a calm respectful grace"

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Govt should explain why it rejected our advice - Climate Commission

The Climate Change Commission's chair says the Government's decisions to ignore its advice could weaken the country's most important climate policy.

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New Orleans’ lesson on fallible flood defences: Let's not ‘build back better’

Our survival depends on us living with nature, and post-cyclone where we rebuild and where we do not is the main issue to address now, writes Lianne Dalziel

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Central Otago subdivision buyers lose the plot

Plan gets caught in a wave of council rule rewrites driving some section buyers to give up and look elsewhere.

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Beware of coconut oil merchants

Coconut plantations are far from being ‘natural’ environments, coconut oil is high in saturated fats, and, despite the advertising, most of the global supply of coconut oil doesn’t come from the Pacific Islands either, says Nate Rigler.

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TOP and the not terribly Teal Deal

The Opportunities Party leader Raf Manji talks to Nikki Mandow about going teal, and the opportunity for a party that’s pro-business and pro-environment

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