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This week's biggest-selling New Zealand books, as recorded by the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list and described by Steve Braunias

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Perth Wildcats ease past Breakers in NBL

The Perth Wildcats have returned to the winner's enclosure with a comfortable win over New Zealand Breakers as they close in on an NBL semi-final berth.

AAP

New Zealand chip factory calls bomb squad after ‘muddy potato’ turns out to be grenade

Alert night shift worker spots grenade trundling down a converyor belt at 3.30am on Tuesday

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Wales announce autumn international fixtures: Dates and ticket prices as All Blacks and Wallabies return to Cardiff

Wales have confirmed four autumn matches, with New Zealand and Australia among the teams coming to the Welsh capital

Wales Online

Aus-NZ refugee deal is a bandage on a failed policy. It's time to end offshore processing

Australia has finally accepted New Zealand’s offer to settle some of the refugees from the offshore processing regime – about nine years after it was first made in 2013.

The Conversation

New Zealand’s cats are decimating native wildlife – should they be treated as pests?

Cats have been left out of New Zealand’s ambitious plan to free the nation of introduced pests – but calls are growing for their regulation

The Guardian - AU

Beyond tougher trade sanctions: 3 more ways NZ can add to global pressure on Russia

Defence Minister Peeni Henare may not have won Cabinet approval to provide lethal weaponry to Ukraine, but the decision to apply 35% tariffs to all Russian imports is a clear sign the government knew its response to Russia’s war of aggression had to accelerate.

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IPCC report: how New Zealand could reduce emissions faster and rely less on offsets to reach net zero

Past reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) had an otherworldly feel. The onset of climate change, let alone the low-emissions transition, seemed abstract and far away.

The Conversation

As borders reopen, can New Zealand reset from high volume to ‘high values’ tourism?

With the reopening of New Zealand’s borders from next week, the future of tourism comes into sharp relief. Flattened by the pandemic and having survived on domestic consumption for two years, the industry has a choice: try to revive the old ways, or develop a new model.

The Conversation

NZ's health service is failing some communities: building a better national system requires local partnerships

The New Zealand government is set to launch a massive overhaul of the health sector later this year. But to create a truly equitable system, local communities should be involved in developing the health services that affect them.

The Conversation

Marsden Point role in generational leap to biofuels

The Govt's biofuel mandate will require Marsden Point's big oil tanks and Auckland pipeline – and that means high-tech second generation biofuels.

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Govt subsidy and war spark boom in electric car sales

Electric vehicle sales have gone crazy since the Government introduced the clean car discount last year and then Russia invaded Ukraine disrupting petrol prices.

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The urgent need for more GPs

New Zealand is facing a serious shortage of GPs - many family doctors will be hitting retirement age over the next decade and we're not training enough to replace them.

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Where two years without immigration puts New Zealand

As the border slowly returns to a more permeable state, the Productivity Commission will present its case on whether New Zealand has an over-reliance on migrant labour

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Infrastructure firm China Railway goes off tracks in NZ, owing money

A multibillion-dollar Chinese company quietly folded its NZ operations with nearly $800,000 in unpaid debts.

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Russia ally excluded from NZ tariff hike

While Aotearoa's allies take aim at Belarus, the Government hasn't followed.

The Guardian - AU

Dr Ashley Bloomfield, who led New Zealand’s pandemic response, resigns

Softly-spoken public servant who became a household name says the role had been challenging and complex

Reuters

New Zealand introduces new sanctions, tariffs on Russian imports

The New Zealand government said on Wednesday it was introducing a 35% tariff on all imports from Russia and would extend existing export prohibitions to industrial products closely connected to strategic Russian industries.

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NZ's top doc Bloomfield to stand down

Ashley Bloomfield, New Zealand's Director General of Health and architect of its world-leading COVID-19 response, is hanging up his stethoscope in July.

ABC News

Scott Morrison says Australia's emissions record is better than the US, NZ, Canada, Japan and many European countries. Is that correct?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says Australia has reduced emissions by around 20 per cent, and that this is a better record than the US, NZ, Canada, Japan and many European countries. Is that correct? RMIT ABC Fact Check investigates.

ABC News

Case against SAS soldier accused of mistreating corpses in East Timor collapsed after New Zealand witnesses were denied identity protections

Australia's only prosecution of an elite SAS soldier for crimes in combat collapsed because special forces witnesses were denied "standard" identity protections, the New Zealand military reveals.

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Calls for more protections as wetlands burn

The second significant wetland area on fire this year has prompted concerns from conservationists around the protection of the last remnants of New Zealand’s natural wetlands

The Guardian - UK

Dan Carter on kicking 1,598 goals in 24 hours for charity: ‘OK, sounds doable’

Rugby union’s record Test points scorer is going to kick 1,598 goals in 24 hours for charity at Eden Park in Auckland

The Independent UK

New Zealand’s North Island shores lit up with stunning ‘aurora of the sea’ luminous plankton

Bioluminescence in blooms of plankton happens when they try to shake off predators

The Guardian - AU

‘Aurora of the sea’: luminous plankton light up New Zealand shores

Rare phenomenon of bioluminescence is caused by blooms of plankton which glow to evade or distract predators

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