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The prime minister has been poorly advised over saliva testing, a top US-based epidemiologist says.
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Guarding The Stable Door: In the absence of the hard evidence only an actual terrorist atrocity can supply, the ability of New Zealand’s nat...
Newsroom
New numbers suggest sticking with a one-year fixed term on your mortgage is probably going to cost you less than fixing longer term, despite interest rate rises. But it’s an uncertain call.
The Spinoff
Friday's attack at a supermarket followed years of attempts by the government to deport a refugee who had become radicalised, Justin Giovannetti writes in The Bulletin. Officials tried for years to deport the terrorist responsible for Friday’s attack. The man responsible for stabbing shoppers at
Stuff
OPINION: We should never compromise on human rights and democratic values that distinguish us from the barbarism of terrorist groups.
Stuff
OPINION: There are some sectors where the risk of exposure and spreading Covid-19 justify an employer directing that only vaccinated employees can perform certain roles.
Stuff
The Government's failure to address serious health shortages led to preventable cancer deaths after the first lockdown
The Conversation
As Friday’s attack by an ISIS sympathiser in a New Zealand supermarket shows, ISIS’s extreme ideology still holds strong appeal for some disaffected Muslims living in the west.
The Spinoff
We must ask what we can do as a country, as communities and as individuals to stop the spread of hate. Today we stand with the injured and their families, ready to help in whatever way we can, writes Anjum Rahman. In June this year, the director of our Security Intelligence Services tol
Newsroom
A gap in counter-terrorism law had been identified - but not fixed in time to prevent tragedy.
NZ Herald
"Lone wolf" terror attacks are especially hard to prevent, Dr John Battersby says.
The Conversation
Concerns about privacy protection of contact tracing data include the potential use by police for enforcement purposes or businesses for marketing.
Newsroom
Auckland's big electricity network company is being hobbled by regulation and a shambolic ownership, writes Rod Oram, but there is an election looming to help sort that out
Newsroom
Do delays caused by big building companies' market domination, delays caused by international supply chain disruption, and delays caused by Auckland's Level 4 lockdown, all point to a wider structural problem?
RNZ
The number of pensioners getting superannuation payments while son income of more than $200,000 has more than tripled over the past decade. Superannuitants are the largest group of beneficiaries in the country, and as the annual Super bill rises, so too do the number of high earning recipients. Nita Blake-Persen reports.
The Spinoff
One of the world’s least affordable housing markets might finally be slowing, Justin Giovannetti writes in The Bulletin. New Zealand’s house prices are still climbing rapidly, but there’s growing evidence that the soaring increases of the past year and a half might finally be slowing. There are b
The stress of riding the emotional rollercoaster of Covid-19 is being compounded by uncertainty about New Zealand’s recovery plan, Queenstown...
Stuff
"None of the options are easy" to make superannuation more affordable, researcher says.
Stuff
OPINION: The cost of underfunding and under-provision of primary health care for Māori is borne by Māori, measured in disease, sickness and death.
RNZ
An application by Far North landowners to take billions of litres of water from an underground aquifer has been given the go ahead.
RNZ
Thousands of building sites are reopening today amid warnings common products could run out within days.
Stuff
Freshly out of lockdown, building sites face a new issue: a potential shortage of supplies.
The Spinoff
The government’s emissions plan is coming soon, worker shortages are being reported across the country and proposed hate speech legislation could need some tweaks. Justin Giovannetti writes in The Bulletin. A slow recovery starts. With much of the country now down to alert level three and parliam
Stuff
OPINION: The forces that drove globalisation and plentiful supplies might well operate in reverse for many years to come.
Newsroom
Conspiracy theorists appear to be trying to build a movement in rural New Zealand.
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