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President Erdoğan’s visit to Germany forces it to reckon with the liberal democratic values it still claims to champion and the realpolitik imperatives of engaging with authoritarian powers

Sharemarket rally stalls as Mainfreight result highlights tighter conditions

As New Zealand First’s number three, Casey Costello could become a minister. Newsroom political editor Jo Moir looks at her path to power and talks to the high-profile men picking big things for her.

The NZ Royal Commission of Inquiry into how the nation handled the Covid-19 pandemic has already spoken to hundreds of people of all persuasions, but the work is definitely taking the hush-hush approach

The numbers of New Zealanders ageing and soon to need care are confronting, and someone needs to be planning now for how to pay for it

Bard Billot on Labour's Boy Blunder

A walkout by one nation marred an otherwise undramatic summit, but the barriers to reconciliation between Nauru and the Pacific Islands Forum are not insurmountable.

Wellington writer Jake Arthur has been judged runner-up at the 2023 Sargeson Prize for his short story "On Beauty", described by judge Vincent O'Sullivan as a story about "how and why a principled female professor tells a male student he is beautiful, and is called before an Ethics Committee"

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