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NZ’s electricity market is a mess. Rolling out rooftop solar would change the game

Wholesale prices in the New Zealand electricity market have soared over recent weeks, climbing as high as NZ$1,000 per megawatt hour. North Island pulp and paper plants have temporarily closed down because of the spike in costs.

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Traffic to airport will be disrupted as NZ PM visits Canberra

People taking flights on Thursday, Friday advised to leave plenty of time.

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NSW introduces legislation to overhaul environmental offset scheme – as it happened

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All eyes on deportees as NZ PM Luxon lands in Australia

NZ Prime Minister Chris Luxon's two-day trip to Australia will focus on infrastructure, foreign policy and, as usual for trans-Tasman talks, deportations.

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New Zealand refugee resettlement deal likely to wind up

New Zealand is set to fall well short of an agreement to resettle 450 refugees from Australia, concerning advocates.

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NZ already spends less on health than Australia or Canada – we need proper funding, not ‘crisis’ management

We are being told the health system is in crisis, “on the brink of failure” – spending beyond its budget, waiting times getting longer, suffering from widespread staff shortages.

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New Zealand prime minister Luxon to visit Australia

Deportations and immigration could find its way into trans-Tasman talks this week when Chris Luxon visits Australia for the annual Aust-NZ Leaders Meeting.

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Pacific aid bolstered as leaders head to New Caledonia

Australia will help stock emergency aid supplies across the Pacific to quicken disaster responses while it seeks the sign off of leaders for a policing plan.

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A new report lays out NZ’s humanitarian duties under the laws of war – now it needs an action plan

The laws of war might seem of limited relevance in relatively peaceful New Zealand. But our soldiers participate in coalitions fighting wars abroad, and the often flagrant violation of humanitarian law in ongoing conflicts reminds us not to be complacent.

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New Zealand’s conservative turn sounds chillingly familiar to Indigenous Australians. Here’s why the Māori fight is our fight

Every attack on treaty, land rights, language, culture and self-determination for Māori will give Australia’s politicians more justification for their actions, or lack thereof

The Guardian - AU

France rebukes NZ deputy leader over New Caledonia

France is yet to greenlight an edict from Pacific leaders to visit its territory of New Caledonia after riots, saying it remained the president's prerogative.

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New Zealand changing course on climate emissions

New Zealand's coalition government has dismantled many of the climate programs of Jacinda Ardern's government, and is without a pathway to a net-zero 2050.

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Forty years on from NZ's most consequential election

Four decades after New Zealand's era-defining 1984 election, a new podcast, Juggernaut, looks at the subsequent Labour government which changed the country.

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NZ man to be deported for bashing elderly pokie-player

A man who attacked and robbed a 77-year-old for his pokie winnings has lost a court bid not to be deported to New Zealand.

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'Brain drain' returns as bumper NZ crop heads to Oz

The largest number of Kiwis have left for Australia in more than a decade, with a net trans-Tasman migration of 27,000 in 2023.

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NZ Reserve Bank holds official cash rate at 5.5 pct

New Zealand mortgage-holders could see relief by year's end, with Reserve Bank governor Adrian Orr saying high interest rates are easing inflation.

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Pacific islands are being ‘debanked’. What does it mean – and why are Australia, NZ and the US concerned?

The withdrawal of major banks from Pacific islands poses significant socio-economic risks to the region, prompting intervention by Australia, the US and New Zealand.

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NZ Greens sack MP after worker mistreatment reports

The New Zealand Greens have sacked MP Darleen Tana after revelations of migrant worker exploitation and called on her to resign from parliament.

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'No change' in Nauru resettlement deal with New Zealand

New Zealand should still resettle 96 asylum-seekers detained in Nauru despite its reservations, Australian officials say.

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Aust, NZ fund Solomons airfield in development race

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Jeremiah Manele has welcomed a $55 million investment in Seghe Airfield that could unlock the region's tourism potential.

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NZ's Peters follows Wong in Pacific tour de force

New Zealand Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters will lead a delegation of six Kiwi MPs to the Solomon Islands, Nauru and Niue this week.

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New Zealand to fund more cancer treatments

The New Zealand government has funded $NZ604 million worth of new medicines, including a suite of new cancer drugs.

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A Kiwi Has Taken Her BF To The NZ Disputes Tribunal After He Didn’t Give Her A Lift To The Airport

A woman in New Zealand has taken her boyfriend to court after alleging that he failed to drop her off at the airport.

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Does One NZ’s new ad campaign connect? Many adopted people might not think so

Adoption is often portrayed as a beautiful, loving act. It enables people to become parents to a child who is given a second chance at being part of a loving family. And a birth mother is relieved of a burden she was either unprepared for, or unable to carry.

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NZ PM Luxon heads home after blunder-ful Japan trip

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Luxon has labelled some Kiwi business leaders as the "C-List" in a gaffe revealing his fondness for the political fight.

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