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Volatile electorate delivers mixed results for all parties in latest polls
Recent polls carry good news and bad news for all parties – and their leaders.
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Pacific Islands Forum: Should outside nations be allowed at the leaders’ summit?
By Teuila Fuatai of RNZ Pacific in Koror, Palau The Solomon Islands is asking its fellow Pacific Island Forum (PIF) members to reconsider the presence of dialogue partners at the regional body’s annual leaders meeting, RNZ Pacific understands. The issue was raised at a closed meeting of the PIF on Wednesday morning in Palau, with
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NZ’s new medicines fast-track promises quicker approvals. But what about access?
A new system to approve medicines faster has been introduced. But barriers facing RSV protections shows why that’s only one step towards getting them to patients.
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Andy Burnham’s first PMQs: here’s what we learned from this bloodless affair
There were a few hints of the kind of prime minister Burnham aspires to be.
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Art Centre Melbourne workers face a battle between industrial and cultural policy
Disputes from 1944 to today trace the increasingly central role of government funding in shaping working conditions in the arts.
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Can Australian businesses legally ban customers from using smart glasses?
An outright ban is legally risky. Here are some safer options.
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Thousands of Australians received infected blood, over decades. Now they’ll have their say
Thousands of Australians unwittingly contracted HIV and hepatitis C before donated blood was routinely tested. Could a new Senate inquiry mean fairer compensation?
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Trust is key: why home energy upgrades need more than rebates
Research suggests relationships are key to ensuring home energy upgrade programs work.
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Top 30 NZ news media you should follow this election and the Top 5 you should ignore – The Daily Blog
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor and publisher of The Daily Blog This New Zealand general election on November 7 has an enormous amount at stake. If this hard-right coalition government gets re-elected to cement into place 19th Century Settler White Privilege using an anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-beneficiary, anti-worker, anti-renter and anti-environment agenda for their donors interests,…
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Yosemite, again in corporate crosshairs, embodies the long war over US national park privatization
Debate over turning public national park land into private profit dates back more than a century.
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Will AI save or ruin democracy? It depends on whether we allow computers to stand in for people
Have we become trapped in thinking that better politics is just a technical fix away?
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Iraq’s archaeological discoveries have shaped understanding of human civilisation – but its scientists have been sidelined
The centenaries of some of Iraq’s most influential archaeological discoveries invite reflection about the role of Iraqi scientists.