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Today from The Detail: This nasty pest can be destroyed, but it will take government resources and extreme vigilance from the public to do it.
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Efforts ramp up to eradicate the yellow-legged hornet
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/efforts-ramp-up-to-eradicate-the-yellow-legged-hornet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762477843-3
about 5 hours ago
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In part two of this instalment in our series on lobbying: The Free Speech Union has been quietly wooing university vice chancellors, with some success.
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Who Benefits: A think tankās charm offensive and a doubting Thomas
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/who-benefits-a-think-tanks-charm-offensive-and-a-doubting-thomas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762477694-3
about 6 hours ago
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From Auckland University - Comment: Judges around the world have pulled lawyers up for submitting AI-generated material to the court thatās wrong. To those lawyers who do want to use it ā hereās a warning.
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Lawyers, think hard before you use AI
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/lawyers-think-hard-before-you-use-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762478088-3
about 6 hours ago
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Days after Westpac announced a record net profit of $1.2 billion, the āBig Fourā Australian-owned banks defend their slowness to pass on rates cuts to homeowners.
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Small banks pass on mortgage rates while big banks 'pad profits'
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/small-banks-pass-on-mortgage-rates-while-big-banks-pad-profits/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762477723-3
about 6 hours ago
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Test your smarts with Newsroom's daily crossword.
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Daily crossword, Friday 7 November
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/daily-crossword-friday-7-november/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762478186-2
about 7 hours ago
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An AI company and one-time NZX contender is refusing to settle unpaid wages owed to a former worker, 18 months after IRD applied for it to be liquidated.
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AI company owes $70k in unpaid wages after narrowly avoiding liquidation
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/ai-company-owes-70k-in-unpaid-wages-after-narrowly-avoiding-liquidation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762478129-3
about 7 hours ago
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In a week of historic achievement at the Melbourne Cup, LockerRoom tells the story of a history-making Kiwi woman rider.
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Where is she now? Melbourne Cup jockey Maree Lyndon
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/where-is-she-now-melbourne-cup-jockey-maree-lyndon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762478160-2
about 7 hours ago
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The latest NielsenIQ BookScan bestseller chart of NZ books, plus win Nigel Latta's last words.
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This week's bestselling books - November 7
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/this-weeks-bestselling-books-november-7/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762477974-2
about 8 hours ago
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In a political flip-flop, Education Minister Erica Stanford has decided to remove the Treaty of Waitangi obligations on school boards without consulting MÄori. Laura Walters reports.
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Warnings of relationship damage, Treaty breaches over school board changes
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/warnings-of-relationship-damage-treaty-breaches-over-school-board-changes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762477942-3
about 8 hours ago
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It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports.
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Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/gutting-of-zero-carbon-act-crashes-bipartisan-climate-consensus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762477806-3
about 9 hours ago
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Opinion: By trying to silence health professionals, the Government risks smothering advocacy, equity and reform, writes Barbara Fountain.
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Stop telling health professionals to get back in their box
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/stop-telling-health-professionals-to-get-back-in-their-box/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762477884-3
about 9 hours ago
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Public agencies are offering staff te reo MÄori and MÄori-Crown relations training, but senior ministers say this isnāt how public funds should be spent.
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Seymour says his ministry shouldnāt offer te reo lessons on taxpayer dime
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/seymour-says-his-ministry-shouldnt-offer-te-reo-lessons-on-taxpayer-dime/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762474302-3
about 13 hours ago
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Test your smarts with Newsroom's daily crossword.
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Daily crossword, Friday 7 November
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/daily-crossword-friday-7-november/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452258-2
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Opinion: NZ keeps framing pay transparency in terms of compliance costs rather than productivity gains, writes Jo Cribb
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Pay equity is not just fair, it's good for GDP too
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/pay-equity-is-not-just-fair-its-good-for-gdp-too/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452707-3
about 17 hours ago
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In a week of historic achievement at the Melbourne Cup, LockerRoom tells the story of a history-making Kiwi woman rider
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Where is she now? Melbourne Cup jockey Maree Lyndon
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/where-is-she-now-melbourne-cup-jockey-maree-lyndon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452173-2
about 18 hours ago
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An AI company and one-time NZX contender is refusing to settle unpaid wages owed to a former worker, 18 months after IRD applied for it to be liquidated.
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AI company owes $70k in unpaid wages after narrowly avoiding liquidation
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/ai-company-owes-70k-in-unpaid-wages-after-narrowly-avoiding-liquidation/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452512-3
about 18 hours ago
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From Auckland University - Comment: Judges around the world have pulled lawyers up for submitting AI-generated material to the court thatās wrong. To those lawyers who do want to use it ā hereās a warning.
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Lawyers, think hard before you use AI
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/lawyers-think-hard-before-you-use-ai/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452288-3
about 18 hours ago
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The latest NielsenIQ BookScan bestseller chart of NZ books, plus win Nigel Latta's last words
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This week's bestselling books - November 7
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/this-weeks-bestselling-books-november-7/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452238-2
about 18 hours ago
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Public agencies are offering staff te reo MÄori and MÄori-Crown relations training, but senior ministers say this isnāt how public funds should be spent
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Seymour says his ministry shouldnāt offer te reo lessons on taxpayer dime
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/seymour-says-his-ministry-shouldnt-offer-te-reo-lessons-on-taxpayer-dime/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452151-3
about 18 hours ago
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Opinion: By trying to silence health professionals, the Government risks smothering advocacy, equity and reform, writes Barbara Fountain
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Stop telling health professionals to get back in their box
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/stop-telling-health-professionals-to-get-back-in-their-box/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452437-3
about 18 hours ago
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In a political flip-flop, Education Minister Erica Stanford has decided to remove the Treaty of Waitangi obligations on school boards without consulting MÄori. Laura Walters reports.
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Warnings of relationship damage, Treaty breaches over school board changes
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/warnings-of-relationship-damage-treaty-breaches-over-school-board-changes/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452479-3
about 18 hours ago
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Today from The Detail: This nasty pest can be destroyed, but it will take government resources and extreme vigilance from the public to do it
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Efforts ramp up to eradicate the yellow-legged hornet
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/efforts-ramp-up-to-eradicate-the-yellow-legged-hornet/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452201-3
about 18 hours ago
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It took more than a year of painstaking cross-partisan negotiation to land the Zero Carbon Act. Now, the Govt is gutting it unilaterally, Marc Daalder reports
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Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/gutting-of-zero-carbon-act-crashes-bipartisan-climate-consensus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452406-3
about 19 hours ago
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Days after Westpac announced a record net profit of $1.2 billion, the āBig Fourā Australian-owned banks defend their slowness to pass on rates cuts to homeowners.
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Small banks pass on mortgage rates while big banks 'pad profits'
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/small-banks-pass-on-mortgage-rates-while-big-banks-pad-profits/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452368-3
about 19 hours ago
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In part two of this instalment in our series on lobbying: The Free Speech Union has been quietly wooing university vice chancellors, with some success
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Who Benefits: A think tankās charm offensive and a doubting Thomas
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/07/who-benefits-a-think-tanks-charm-offensive-and-a-doubting-thomas/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762452121-3
about 19 hours ago
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Shane Jones says fast-track admins had āmissed the memoā ā so now the Govt will spell out clearly its support for sectors like mining. Fox Meyer reports.
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Fast-track changes increase ministerial powers
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/fast-track-changes-restrict-panels-and-increase-ministerial-powers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762388704-3
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Opinion from the University of Auckland: NZās world-class research wonāt drive growth unless we build the capability to commercialise it.
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Capability is constraining building high-value economy
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/capability-is-constraining-building-high-value-economy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762388603-3
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Today from The Detail: A key player in the curriculum rewrite says the criticism is overblown - and not a reflection of what the sector thinks.
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Behind the education overhaul
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/behind-the-education-overhaul/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762387406-3
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A literary award held tonight honours the remarkable Ronald Hugh Morrieson.
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The sage of HÄwera rides again
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/the-sage-of-hawera-rides-again/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762388843-2
1 day ago
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In the latest instalment in Newsroom's Who Benefits series, a free speech advocacy group struggles to shake off the label of a dark money think tank.
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Who Benefits: The rise and rise of the Free Speech Union
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/who-benefits-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-free-speech-union/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762387450-3
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From Auckland University - Comment: The Governmentās controversial new plans for the school curriculum will not meet the demands of a future affected by global warming, redistribution of wealth and sustainable ways of living
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Intense debate over school curriculum reflects significant social crisis
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/intense-debate-over-school-curriculum-reflects-significant-social-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762388806-3
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Opinion: Critics wanted to reassess projects' merits to get environmental initiatives approved; instead they've ended up with more roads, writes Eric Crampton.
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Be careful what you wish for ā new cost-benefit analysis paves paradise
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-with-cost-benefit-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762388762-2
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There's just a handful of corporates that stand to benefit from Commerce Minister Scott Simpson's unexpected call to dramatically loosen climate reporting requirements; some are political donors. Jonathan Milne investigates.
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Govt answers fishing chief's billion dollar question on climate disclosures
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/govt-answers-billion-dollar-question-on-climate-disclosures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762388571-3
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The number of non-performing loans by credit unions, building societies and some charities has doubled ā so are they safe enough to be allowed to call themselves banks? Jonathan Milne investigates - Newsroom Pro $ -
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Foundations of next-gen 'banks' undermined by subprime loans
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/next-gen-banks-foundations-undermined-by-subprime-loans/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762385400-3
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A literary award held tonight honours the remarkable Ronald Hugh Morrieson
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The sage of HÄwera rides again
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/the-sage-of-hawera-rides-again/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365431-3
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Opinion: Critics wanted to reassess projects' merits to get environmental initiatives approved; instead they've ended up with more roads, writes Eric Crampton.
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Be careful what you wish for ā new cost-benefit analysis paves paradise
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/be-careful-what-you-wish-for-with-cost-benefit-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365582-3
1 day ago
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Opinion from the University of Auckland: NZās world-class research wonāt drive growth unless we build the capability to commercialise it
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Capability is constraining building high-value economy
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/capability-is-constraining-building-high-value-economy/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365454-3
2 days ago
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Shane Jones says fast-track admins had āmissed the memoā ā so now the Govt will spell out clearly its support for sectors like mining. Fox Meyer reports.
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Fast-track changes increase ministerial powers
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/fast-track-changes-restrict-panels-and-increase-ministerial-powers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365528-3
2 days ago
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From Auckland University - Comment: The Governmentās controversial new plans for the school curriculum will not meet the demands of a future affected by global warming, redistribution of wealth and sustainable ways of living
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Intense debate over school curriculum reflects significant social crisis
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/intense-debate-over-school-curriculum-reflects-significant-social-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365392-3
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The Government's surprise move to gut the Zero Carbon Act has upended six years of cross-partisan consensus on climate change. - Newsroom Pro - $ -
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Gutting of Zero Carbon Act crashes bipartisan climate consensus
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/gutting-of-zero-carbon-act-crashes-bipartisan-climate-consensus/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365348-3
2 days ago
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There's just a handful of corporates that stand to benefit from Commerce Minister Scott Simpson's unexpected call to dramatically loosen climate reporting requirements; some are political donors. Jonathan Milne investigates.
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Govt answers fishing chief's billion dollar question on climate disclosures
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/govt-answers-billion-dollar-question-on-climate-disclosures/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365490-3
2 days ago
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In the latest instalment in Newsroom's Who Benefits series, a free speech advocacy group struggles to shake off the label of a dark money think tank
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Who Benefits: The rise and rise of the Free Speech Union
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/who-benefits-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-free-speech-union/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365368-3
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Today from The Detail: A key player in the curriculum rewrite says the criticism is overblown - and not a reflection of what the sector thinks
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Behind the education overhaul
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/06/behind-the-education-overhaul/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762365410-3
2 days ago
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Today from The Detail: A City Councillor and a Marine Science Professor warn that the Hauraki Gulf recovery is at risk after a last-minute fishing carve-out to the new Tīkapa Moana
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'Protected' gulf zones ā preservation or hollow promises?
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/protected-gulf-zones-preservation-or-hollow-promises/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762333328-3
2 days ago
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Shane Jones says fast-track admins had āmissed the memoā ā so now the Govt will spell out clearly its support for sectors like mining. Fox Meyer reports.
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Fast-track changes increase ministerial powers
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/fast-track-changes-restrict-panels-and-increase-ministerial-powers/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762310110-3
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Analysis: Will the renegade MPs seek to recruit others to their group, or can they be reconciled to the MÄori party? 'Hope remains eternal,' says president John Tamihere.
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Te PÄti MÄori war between 'saboteurs' and 'dictator' hits flashpoint
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/feeding-frenzy-over-te-pati-maori/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762310164-3
2 days ago
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Independent funding for GPs could take years to suitably address the needs of MÄori and Pacific communities, the Labour Party admits.
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Unmet health needs will take years to address ā Labour
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/04/unmet-health-needs-will-take-years-to-address-labour/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762310068-3
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A toddler's rib fractures helped convict a young Auckland father. Newsroom finds three overseas experts who say there was no evidence of fractures, raising serious questions about other convictions.
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Dispute over lead Starship radiologist's diagnosis of 19 rib fractures ā man in prison
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/dispute-over-lead-starship-radiologists-diagnosis-of-19-rib-fractures-man-in-prison/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762309967-3
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The powerful new memoir by TÄme Iti is a reminder that he is due a royal honour
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Book of the Week: Arise, Sir TÄme
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/book-of-the-week-arise-sir-tame/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762310350-3
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New Zealandās population growth keeps shifting south, led by Canterbury in 2025. Internal migration is slowing, but southern regions continue to attract movers as house prices even out nationwide.
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Kiwis keep heading south as Canterbury tops population growth charts
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/05/kiwis-keep-heading-south-as-canterbury-tops-population-growth-charts/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1762310319-3
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