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The push for a smaller public service risks coming at a larger cost for New Zealanders
The government’s sweeping overhaul assumes AI, restructuring and job cuts can deliver a leaner, more efficient state. That is far from certain.
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The world owes Cuba a debt – and the US a condemnation
COMMENTARY: By Jeremy Rose In 2015, the John Key government announced a cooperation agreement that would see NZ Aid pay for Cuban doctors to be taught English in New Zealand before their deployment to the Pacific Islands as part of the communist island’s Medical Brigades. Cuba, a country of just 11 million people that has
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Health services for US veterans from Freely Associated States remain elusive
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor/RNZ Pacific correspondent Securing essential healthcare services for US military veterans from three North Pacific nations remains a persistent challenge. Despite the US Congress specifically authorising in-country services by the US Veterans Administration for veterans of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), and Palau, the Trump
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To avoid future road, rail and renewable blowouts costing billions, Australia needs these 3 big fixes
From Snowy Hydro to Inland Rail, projects get announced early, then costs soar tens of billions higher. Yet there are proven ways to stop that happening.
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27% of Australian students now have an adjustment for disability at school. Why are we seeing this growth?
New data shows more than one quarter of Australian students receive a disability adjustment. This is up from 18% in 2015.
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India is a ‘country of countries’ – NZ business needs a regional strategy to make the trade deal work
Despite the promise of “1.4 billion potential customers”, India is a vast and complex market. No pan-India strategy can substitute for careful, focused planning.
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Australia needs thousands more kerbside EV chargers. Here’s how to roll them out fast and fairly
Australia’s 20 million domestic cars – and almost all heavier vehicles – will eventually be electric. We need to prepare for this.
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Australia has a problem with migration. The Liberals’ policy approach will do nothing to fix it
There are growing tensions in Australia’s migration policy. So far, the Albanese government has not tackled it - but the Liberals’ approach will not solve it either.
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Kids need to play — and how cities are designed and resourced affects their access
If we want cities where all children can thrive, we need to create conditions where play is part of daily life, not something that must be scheduled or purchased.
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Haka, waiata welcome for NZ’s Gaza flotilla activists after brutal ordeal at hands of Israeli military
Asia Pacific Report An emotional and inspiring welcome greeted two of Aotearoa New Zealand’s three Gaza Sumud Flotilla humanitarian activists who arrived home today after their ordeal at the hands of the brutal Israeli military and prison forces last week. About 60 whānau, supporters and well-wishers greeted Hāhona Ormsby and Mousa Taher with a waiata
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Andy Worthington: The startling severity of Gaza flotilla activists’ rape allegations
COMMENTARY: By Andy Worthington It’s a sign of Israel’s swaggering sense of impunity, and of the grotesque depravity at the heart of their notions of supremacy, that their soldiers and those in charge of them thought that they could get away with inflicting severe physical abuse on the 430 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla,
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Pesta Babi doco stirs West Papuan development debates and ‘crackdown’
Asia Pacific Report Pesta Babi (Pig feast), the controversial Papuan documentary film critical of a major development project impacting on the environment in the southeastern Melanesian region, is stirring public debate and a “crackdown” across Indonesia. The film caused a stir when it had its premiere in New Zealand in March and was described in