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Forget the Treaty Principles Bill, Luxon's first real crisis lands – and could be the making of him
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Team NZ skipper leaves, Nathan Outteridge likely successor
Team New Zealand had other options… and exercised them.

On The Up: Top 100 Kiwi sporting moments of the past 25 years
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Editorial: Are NZ Rugby fans at risk of losing the All Blacks?
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Inside Meghan’s real kitchen, away from the cameras
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Kim Knight: Val Kilmer, Cookie Bear and The Body Shop - a Gen X lament
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Succession star Harriet Walter on playing ‘abominable mothers’ and where Shakespeare went wrong
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Snow White and the seven kajillion controversies
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The jury duty games: Where escape rooms meet Cluedo
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Sidelined and still processing her defeat, Kamala Harris looks for a way back in
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Ryan Bridge: Winston Peters and the art of political survival
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An experiment in recklessness: Trump as global disrupter
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He served 36 years for his wife’s murder, then forgave the man who confessed
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Succession star Harriet Walter on playing ‘abominable mothers’ and where Shakespeare went wrong
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Travel

Kim Knight: Val Kilmer, Cookie Bear and The Body Shop - a Gen X lament
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Crime

Opinion: 'Lots of secrets': Inside the gripping documentary on Polkinghorne trial
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Operation Sphinx: How undercover officers cracked the Ariki Rigby gang-related murder
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Education

‘We can’t do it all’: Teachers sound alarm on new curriculum chaos
Overwhelmed, with insufficient training and resources, teachers fear burnout and exodus.

Editorial: Wealth, not race, divides educational opportunities
OPINION: Education in this country is being increasingly divided by class.

‘Run out of stadiums’: Court shortage leaves North Shore kids’ basketball in crisis
About 10,000 fixtures are forced across eight North Shore venues.
Health

Seven signs you’re deficient in vitamin D
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Eight ways to sleep when your thoughts are racing
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Opinion

Cecilia Robinson: Meta’s worst-kept secret, and the Kiwi who exposed it
OPINION: Meta executives don't let their own teens use their platforms.

Ex-Files: Do I have to send my children back to Australia?
OPINION: My kids and I are settled here but my ex wants them to return to Melbourne.

Opinion: 'Lots of secrets': Inside the gripping documentary on Polkinghorne trial
Steve Braunias reviews the documentary of the trial of the century.
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