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NZ has no dedicated database to track losses from weather disasters
19 Mar 2025Currently, New Zealand has no dedicated disaster loss database. This means we don't know how much extreme weather events and other types of disasters are costing us.
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Could the Trump factor save UK PM Keir Starmer's popularity?
23 Mar 2025Analysis - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was struggling in the polls, then he met Donald Trump.
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Luxon meets Modi: Why a ‘good’ NZ-India trade deal is preferable to a ‘perfect’ one
17 Mar 2025Analysis - Not all trade deals are the same, and Luxon may yet get to claim bragging rights.
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Tax changes for charities could throttle their work, academics warn
Opinion - overhauling tax rules for charities could make some unviable or make it harder for them to continue their work, Juliet Chevalier-Watts and Frank Scrimgeour write.
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Sharing 'information' or 'gossip'? It depends who's doing it
17 Mar 2025What counts as gossip is much more slippery than we might think, writes academic researcher James Greenslade-Yeats.
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Australia learned from its own shooting tragedies: Six ideas NZ can borrow
15 Mar 2025Analysis - Nearly 30 years before the 2019 Christchurch attacks, NZ grappled with the horrors of another mass shooting - but law changes made in the aftermath of the massacre were inadequate.
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How Trump's trade war could quickly spiral out of control
14 Mar 2025Analysis: It started with tariffs, but the trade war is quickly escalating beyond import taxes into a broader tit-for-tat battle.
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Hey big spenders: What foreign investors will really want from the infrastructure summit
Analysis - To attract crucial infrastructure investment from overseas, the government are looking at public-private partnerships, but what do investors want?
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Stop waiting for a foreign supermarket hero
18 Mar 2025New Zealanders hoping for a foreign hero to break up the current supermarket concentration will be waiting a long time.
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Many deadly building fires have been in nightclubs, why are they so dangerous?
17 Mar 2025A fire at a nightclub in North Macedonia has killed at least 59 people and injured more than 150.
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Peters' latest rodeo may become his bumpiest yet
Analysis - The Foreign Minister's trip to Washington comes at a time of global volatility, where rules seem to be constantly changing. Audio
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What does NZ need to be part of the quantum technology revolution?
11 Mar 2025We are now in the middle of the second wave of quantum capabilities, which heralds quantum computing, enhanced sensing systems and secure communication technologies.
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NZ's glaciers have lost nearly a third of their ice
10 Mar 2025Almost 300 glaciers have now vanished completely from New Zealand's mountains.
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How far could JD Vance go?
Analysis - The new US vice president is one of Donald Trump's most prominent public admirers. But what's his endgame?
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The Sampler: What to listen to this week
9 Mar 2025Local producer Sola Rosa draws the curtain on his live band, and Japan's Ichiko Aoba softly soothes.
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Putin blinks as Trump's angry gaze shifts
Analysis - In the new poker game of international politics, Donald Trump is dealing the cards.
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The surprising legal rules about trademarking sweary phrases
7 Mar 2025In New Zealand, people cannot register trademarks which are "likely to offend a significant section of the community", but what does that mean?
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Consumer resistance is rising in the age of Trump. History shows how boycotts can be effective
7 Mar 2025In the US there are several month-long boycotts of Target are under way, and longer boycotts are scheduled of specific corporations, beginning with Amazon.
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Donald Trump's big gamble
5 Mar 2025Analysis - Tariffs against Canada and Mexico deal a fresh shock to a slowing economy.
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The atmosphere is getting better at cleaning itself - but that’s not all good news
27 Feb 2025The atmosphere makes its own 'detergent' to clean away noxious gases.
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5 years on, Covid remains NZ's most important infectious disease
26 Feb 2025Analysis: On Friday it is five years since Covid-19 was first reported in New Zealand, and it continues to remain Aotearoa's most harmful disease demanding a strong response.
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Anxiety over editorial policy and a billionaire on board at NZME
Mediawatch - NZME's top brass now have a billionaire on board who wants control and maybe more far-reaching editorial change.
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Common ground for National and Labour?
8 Mar 2025Analysis - Chris Hipkins' state of the nation speech highlighted political bipartisanship, but less than an hour later National was taking swings.
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The world is beginning to tire of Trump’s whiplash leadership
7 Mar 2025Analysis - One day, President Donald Trump imposed a punishing tariff regime against Canada and Mexico. The next, he froze auto duties for a month.
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