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Creativity is easy to fake using ChatGPT and it's very cheap too – the challenge for creative workers is to find a way to economically value originality, writes Nicholas Agar

A scarcity of goals for the Football Ferns weighs heavily on veteran striker Hannah Wilkinson's mind. But with the help of childhood memories and a mental skills guru, she's hoping to break the drought in Turkey this Easter. 

In episode 2 of Raw Politics: Jacinda Ardern's final farewell from Parliament, the Reserve Bank's hawkish interest rate move and the gentle crackdown on lobbyists.

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias (plus Megan Nicole Reed is given away)

Almost a year after the current contract formally ended, a new chair for the IPCA is set to take over, but not all in Parliament are supportive.

Black Ferns Sevens captain Sarah Hirini is heading to Japan to play professional sevens for the Pearls club – something she wants to make more permanent once her international career is over, she tells Suzanne McFadden in an exclusive interview.

Mexican standoff: Desperate to hold onto their lending share in a declining property market, banks have ignored Reserve Bank pressure to raise mortgage interest rates. But the standoff must end. Brokers reckon the first of the banks will blink next week. You can see the whites of their eyes, writes Jonathan Milne.

Should a solar farm be allowed in the Mackenzie Basin, an outstanding natural landscape?

The more energy is used to extract fossil fuels, the more we will pay for them – and there less energy there will be available to run our economies. The consequences of not preparing our families and communities are grim.

Kicking old school attitudes, bias and 'boofheads' into touch is at the heart of NZ Rugby's new women and girls strategy. But in Mid-Canterbury, a Silver Fern is beating them to it, Suzanne McFadden discovers.

Steve Braunias on two men at the centre of a historic sex scandal in Whanganui