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Reforms 'can't end' with legalised cannabis

MELBOURNE: Former New Zealand prime minister and current member of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty, Helen Clark, has praised Thailand for decriminalising cannabis, but has also called on the country to end capital punishment, especially for those convicted of drug offences.

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Anti-Aukus feeling growing at home

A public debate is needed before New Zealand moves ahead with any efforts to join the controversial security deal, groups say.

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Experts urge Victoria to provide promised CBD safe injecting room or risk further harm to vulnerable people

Andrews government bought a Flinders Street site for $40.3m in 2021 but it has sat empty since

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Former NZ PM Helen Clark backs decriminalisation of drugs

Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark is calling for drug use to be decriminalised and for drug users to no longer be incarcerated.

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New Zealand better off outside AUKUS: Clark

New Zealand may be pressured into increasing its own defence spending following Australia's signficant submarines deal with the US and UK.

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Surprise! Farmers can be the new heroes of climate mitigation

A dollar spent wisely on mitigation brings transformational economic benefits. So we can justify investing in both mitigation and adaptation, as China, India and many other countries are doing. Humanity can still, just, prevent catastrophic climate change if each country shoulders its share of climate responsibility.

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Fresh fighting over MPs' speaking rights at Waitangi

Waitangi organisers are trying to push political leaders to the side at Sunday's pōwhiri, but Labour's deputy leader says it's not for them to decide who speaks.

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Ardern squandered her chance at transformational change at every turn

How Labour's economic handling of the Covid crisis created an explosion in inequality. By Elliot Crossan

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How Labour fell into crisis barely two years after its historic election win

In part one of a series looking at the resignation of Jacinda Ardern, Elliot Crossan asks did she resign because Labour faces certain defeat in 2023?

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Where to next for the NZ leader who 'stands for co-operation and decency'?

The over-qualified recruiters for international agencies are banging on Jacinda Ardern's door, writes Jonathan Milne, but she can afford to take her time.

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Jacinda Ardern’s ‘immeasurable difference’ hailed by world leaders following shock resignation as New Zealand Prime Minister

Fortune rounds up what world leaders have to say on New Zealand’s outgoing prime minister, as well as, who could be her successor.

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Ardern's resignation resonates for women in power

The shock resignation of New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who altered the face of global politics when she was elected the world's youngest female head of state, throws a spotlight on the demands faced by women in power.

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In five momentous years Jacinda Ardern became New Zealand’s most important postwar prime minister

Ardern proved she was more than a happy face as she confronted Covid, terrorism, the climate crisis and more

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Birding with Helen Clark & Margaret Atwood

We cross live to the centre of the universe

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'Conscious foodies' happy to pay more, research finds

Newly-published studies show consumers overseas would pay more for low environmental impact food, if we offered it to them. The depressing thing is, old research said pretty much the same thing.

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How Hamilton West is won

The by-election in Hamilton West is heating up, with both major party leaders swinging in to lend some star power to their candidates' campaigns.

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Gaylene, Jacinda & Helen

When Labour MPs galloped out of a movie premiere

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Green future in focus at International Mining and Resources Conference in Sydney

The International Mining and Resources Conference has commenced in Sydney, where former NZ PM Helen Clark urged the attendees to be part of the fight against climate change.

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Green energy push a chance for mining sector to reshape dull and dirty image, Sydney conference hears

Effort to end fossil fuels may bring rapid industry expansion and chance to stop workers leaving ‘in droves’, EITI chair Helen Clark says

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New Zealand has just passed a law that will revolutionise workers’ rights. It probably won’t last

Jacinda Ardern’s government has radically expanded unions’ collective bargaining power. But if she goes at the next election, so will this legislation

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Book of the Week: Oh, Jim

Brian Easton on the man who would be king.

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Our man in London: Phil Goff set to be confirmed as UK high commissioner

His negotiating skills to be put to the test on trade, defence and immigration – when a small country 20,000km away is the last thing on the minds of Britain's new King and Prime Minister.

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A structure of impunity

The PM attended the Queen's funeral and the UN's General Assembly in a week. Aaron Smale asks if her Government's behaviour at home is insulting to both institutions.

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Things turn awkward at edgy mayoral debate

The latest debate among leading Auckland mayoral candidates had a few sharp and personal turns, with awkward moments for some and awkward policy adjustments for others

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Labour must make a bold, unpredictable move to win next election

In the Clark and Key governments a year out from their third election win, all the indicators were good but today's governing party faces an increasingly uphill battle, says Peter Dunne

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