2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (142+ words) Parties rule out deals to get Opportunity’s Qiulae Wong over the line in heartland seat Newsroom It’s just a 50-metre walk from Sanjani Singh’s family-run Indian sweets and snacks store in Sandringham, to the restaurant where Chris Hipkins is meeting…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (672+ words) Expert opinion from University of Auckland - Waipapa Taumata Rau For generations, conversations about Pacific health have often started from the same assumption: that solutions would come from somewhere else. The Pacific was viewed as a region facing challenges rather than…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (78+ words) Machines don’t feel the cost of living pinch; they won’t fix our broken power market newsroom.co.nz Comment: We all form views on auto-pilot, at least partly. The ultra-rational being making fully researched, entirely consistent and logical decisions does…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (888+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google It’s a classic Shane Jones tactic: find an issue that touches a nerve, unleash some colourful language, and throw the grenade into the middle of an election campaign. This time, the target is New Zealand’s lucrative…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1690+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google Analysis: The future sketched out in a new United Nations report – saying the world will now inevitably cross the 1.5C warming threshold – is objectively catastrophic. Exactly how catastrophic it gets is up to us. That is pretty…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (80+ words) Newsroom Farming lobby group Groundswell says the coalition Government’s resource management reform will be “unworkable”. Environmental groups last week called for the two replacement bills to be dumped because they pulled regulations back too far; Groundswell, meanwhile, says the new…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (885+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google As delegations and observers stream into Palau for this year’s Pacific Islands Forum, they receive a stamp in their passport offering them entry into the country – but only if they offer something in return. “Children of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (149+ words) Newsroom Comment: There is a story about nitrogen fertiliser use that proponents love to tell – it begins with an early 20th century scientific breakthrough by two German chemists and ends with the claim that synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use has helped us…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (718+ words) Prefer Newsroom on Google Comment: Regardless of who wins the election, fuel taxes will remain unchanged for the seventh straight year, after the Government announced Monday it would delay a 12c hike that was due to come into effect on January…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (110+ words) Newsroom Business & investing: After the ‘will they, won’t they?’ hike debate associated with the Reserve Bank’s last monetary policy decision in July, this week’s outcome is already shaping up as a virtual certainty. Economists unanimously expect the central bank will…...