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Stuff
ANALYSIS: Most Kiwis support our strict lockdowns, but strains on public consensus are beginning to show and will come to a head with vaccinations.
Stuff
OPINION: The Opposition has won the right to hold their own questionable graphs up to the media. It's not clear if that illuminates much.
NZ Herald
Judith Collins says the PM's 'spin machine is in overdrive'.
NZ Herald
Covid-19 experts say raft of changes needed to better ventilate NZ's indoor danger spots.
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Once again the “Matthew Effect” is in action – the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. Students in Decile 1-3 high schools in New Zealand have 1/3rd less opportunity to learn compared to students in the top 3 deciles – Decile 8-10. The average full attendance at Decile 1-3 is 41% and in the […]
RNZ
"No" - that's the response from Jacinda Ardern when asked if it is responsible for MPs to be gathering at Parliament today - even though it will be scaled back and socially distanced.
NZ Herald
Caucus' liberal MPs have been moved to less powerful and less high profile committees
The Standard
Judith Collins has insisted on travelling from Auckland to Wellington so she can stand and shout in an empty Parliament Chamber.
Newsroom
Auckland Mayor Phil Goff says the city's multitude of MIQ facilities, sizeable chunk of the population and contribution to GDP should move it up the list for vaccination.
ZB
Politicians are back in the House today, but their meeting will resemble more of a coffee group than a Parliament. Just nine MPs will be there - five Labo
Stuff
The Government may have held off on making record keeping compulsory earlier because it wanted to avoid “using the stick” for as long as possible.
Stuff
Parliament will stay in alert level 4 for the next two weeks as Wellington moves to level 3 - because Judith Collins is attending.
Newsroom
PM orders review of the Crowne Plaza from a “Delta perspective’’.
Stuff
Chris Hipkins says he was off by a month when telling media vaccines would all arrive by end of September.
RNZ
Associate Minister of Health Ayesha Verrall says it is "unacceptable" that members of the Pasifika community were asked for passports at Covid-19 vaccination appointments in the Bay of Plenty.
Stuff
Behind the 1pm updates there is a small army of public servants and political staff. Here's who they are.
RNZ
The Māori Party has launched a petition against any more Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ) facilities opening in Rotorua.
The Standard
This week there has been some argy bargy between the Twitterati including the Waitakerati and the media on coverage of Covid in Aotearoa with elements of the media complaining that the criticisms are unjustified. A brief review of some of the offerings this week would suggest otherwise.
Stuff
OPINION: Facebook’s keyboard warriors and armchair epidemiologists wouldn’t last a day in charge of our Covid response.
RNZ
A previously unbroadcast interview with Sir Michael Cullen about the party caucus, how it works and his experience of it.
Stuff
OPINION: PM Jacinda Ardern is more than able to handle criticism — so why can't her supporters?
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On Thursday, New Zealand made its last evacuation flight out of Kabul.
Māori Television
$1m extra has been given to existing contracts and services to support rangatahi.
Māori Television
The people of Maniapoto have spoken, said trust board chairperson Keith Ikin.
Stuff
In a surprise reshuffle Judith Collins has stripped Chris Bishop of a key portfolio - but not changed his ranking.
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