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When it comes to rates bills, the only way is up
10 Apr 2024Coming soon to an inbox or letterbox near you is something shocking - your next rates bill.
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When it's too expensive to measure poverty
Two fact-finding projects on children and poverty are under attack by public service cost cutting.
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A GPS that could backfire on commuters
8 Apr 2024The plan to get Kiwis moving - as long as it's along a motorway - has public transport experts fuming
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Cherry picking our healthy food labels
Using the health star-rating for packaged food should be simple, but it's not
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Ruapehu's tourism future is complicated and confusing
Snow season is fast approaching but the North Island's only commercial skiing mountain has an uncertain future
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Rugby drops the ball of sporting domination
4 Apr 2024On the field and off, rugby is fighting to keep the game alive
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Rubbing out the rainbow
The line between freedom of expression, and suppression of other people's freedoms
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The disability ministry's funding fiasco
2 Apr 2024Service cuts from the disability ministry caused panic and stress. How did it all go wrong?
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Another chip in the China relationship
China has been caught spying on us. Forty billion dollars in trade might explain why it took three years and the support of two friends to announce.
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Urgent rescue plan needed for India's Gloriavale branch
27 Mar 2024The Gloriavale offshoot in India is home to Kiwi women and children. A former member of the sect says getting them out of there is urgent
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The language of economic doom
Are fiscal holes a real issue, or an easy headline?
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Gains for nature lost
25 Mar 2024Today from The Detail: When the money dries up, gains made by a wave of Covid-inspired funding are likely to be lost.
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The legend you've never heard of
The Japanese art forms that have shaped more of the West's story telling than you may realise
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Changing the charges on electricity
22 Mar 2024In the wake of a change in the way power bills are calculated, The Detail helps you understand the bottom line.
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Finding the heartbeat of our oceans
A team of New Zealand scientists has just returned from studying the sea ice factories in Antarctica, in a joint expedition with Italy
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NZ's confusing and complicated holiday laws
20 Mar 2024The Holidays Act is complex and has led to years of problems. But fixing it seems just as challenging.
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Police confiscation net widens
The proceeds of crime laws have traditionally been used to target gangs and drug dealers. Now police have their eyes on a new target, and that's left businesses feeling vulnerable.
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Seymour is the grand ruler of cutting red tape
A sector that's had rules piled upon it is welcoming moves to cut the red tape
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The man behind NZ's music
16 Mar 2024The Detail's Davina Zimmer discovers she's sitting across from a quiet music legend.
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Samoa's plan to allow overseas voting
15 Mar 2024Critics of a new electoral law in Samoa say it could allow overseas voters to decide elections.
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Aucklanders raise a bin din
14 Mar 2024Auckland Council is calling it a 'bin optimisation drive', but residents say the move to remove their litter receptacles is rubbish
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A perfect storm for problems and incompetence at Immigration NZ
13 Mar 2024A review into a new visa category that sparked more problems than it solved is scathing about Immigration NZ's processes and systems.
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Hurricanes Poua's controversial haka
A haka incorporating barbs aimed at the Government has rekindled a decades old debate over sport and politics.
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Power and money lending rules
The laws that govern our money-lending landscape are in for another shakeup.
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