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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.