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UK’s first post-Brexit trade deals with Australia and New Zealand now in place

The agreements are the first trade deals negotiated post-Brexit to come into force.

The Independent UK

This airline is weighing passengers before they board international flights

"For safety reasons we need to know the weight of all items onboard the aircraft," Air New Zealand says. Numbers from the scales won't be displayed and will remain anonymous, the airline says.

WEKU

Kiwis take top spot as world’s best airlines revealed

Air New Zealand tops list of best airlines in the world for 2023, beating out last year's winner Qatar Airways for the crown.

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Dame Valerie Adams plays on

New research shows a majority of young girls don't have a sporting role model, but a new campaign is aiming to change that - with a very famous face.

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The real cost of New Zealand’s two-tier health system: why going private doesn’t relieve pressure on public hospitals

Ethicists argue that healthcare is special. Unlike other consumer goods, its availability and accessibility should be based on need rather than ability to pay.

The Conversation

Earthquakes can change the course of rivers – with devastating results. We may now be able to predict these threats

New Zealand’s 2016 Kaikōura earthquake stopped the Waiau Toa – also known as the Clarence River – in its course. Within hours, the river flooded outside its channel and changed course. In the seven years since the magnitude 7.8 earthquake, the river has completely abandoned the path it used to…

The Conversation

A China tightrope reaching beyond the horizon

The golden days of NZ's relationship with the Asian superpower are over - and we need to get used to the new, more fraught reality.

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Backpacker bank accounts hit by anti-money laundering rules

Working holiday visa holders have to jump through hoops to get a bank account because of anti-money laundering provisions which even the Reserve Bank say aren't necessary.

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New Zealand to maintain 15 defence personnel in Solomon Islands through year end

New Zealand's government on Monday said it will maintain defence personnel in the Solomon Islands at the request of local authorities until at least Dec. 31, 2023, extending a peace-keeping mission by as much as seven months.

Reuters

The wallabies threatening a national park

Wallabies are hopping closer to one of our most precious national parks. Have we got the tools to stop them in their tracks?

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The coast is under threat

A climate researcher on the future of coastal housing (there is no future)

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Water polo star's childhood tricks pay off

One of NZ's top water polo players, Bernadette Doyle's childhood enthusiasm hasn't waned, helping her team to the World Cup super final.

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The China Tightrope: War on our doorstep?

An edited extract from The China Tightrope, a new book on the NZ-China relationship, on what a conflict involving China might look like - and what that would mean for Aotearoa.

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Tiwai smelter sees path to remain until 2039

In a letter to the Government late last year, New Zealand's only aluminium smelter said it believed it could operate for another 15 years beyond its current 2024 closure date.

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‘They’ll shoot me in two months,’ says New Zealand pilot captured in Indonesia’s Papua

‘We do not ask for money... We really demand our rights for sovereignty’

The Guardian - AU

From thieving parrots to boozy pigeons: why New Zealand is obsessed with its native birds

The result of an extraordinary ecological history, many of New Zealand’s birds are highly unusual but all are beloved

Daily Record

Floating crane made in Paisley almost 100 years ago undergoes transformation ahead of special anniversary

The crane is located in New Zealand having been built in Renfrewshire in the 1920s.

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A short history of the kitchen

The kitchen has become associated with routine and ritual, of domestic practices and gendered activities, but it is also the site of a gradual shift toward the ‘democratisation’ of domesticity

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Separatists in Indonesia's Papua threaten to shoot Kiwi hostage if denied talks

Rebels in Indonesia's Papua region threatened to shoot a New Zealand pilot they took hostage in February if countries do not comply with their demand to start independence talks within two months, a new video released by the group on Friday showed.

Birmingham Post

Skyline Swansea would bring 100 jobs and £84m boost to local economy, says report

The Skyline Swansea project has been proposed by New Zealand company Skyline Enterprises

The Conversation

The highly secretive Five Eyes alliance has disrupted a China-backed hacker group – in an unusually public manner

This week the Five Eyes alliance – an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States – announced its investigation into a China-backed threat targeting US infrastructure.

ABC News

A1 Engineering fined after worker crushed to death at old cheese factory

A1 Engineering has been fined and convicted over a workplace incident in December 2016 where two workers were inside a container preparing to move a 770kg piece of machinery when it fell on them, killing one and badly injuring the other.

Tribune News Service

Zoo Miami discontinues ‘Kiwi Encounter’ and apologizes to New Zealand after online backlash

MIAMI — Zoo Miami has stopped offering its “Kiwi Encounter,” where guests could pet, feed and photograph the rare, flightless bird after viral video on social media sparked outrage over the treatment and handling of the bird named Paora.

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Mānuka: The buzz that a word makes

The Australians have beaten us again - this time, in the long-running fight over mānuka honey.

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The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

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