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The Friday Poem: how to cook cheesecake on a bbq by Paula Harris

A new poem from Paula Harris.
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By Paula Harris | 21st August, 2020
Guest writer
William the Conqueror and Glen Innes houses. (Photo: Unknown artist/Hannah Peters)
Opinion

Why William the Conqueror is partly to blame for our housing problems

What does our housing market have to do with the 800-year-old British feudal land system?
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By Dan Heyworth | 4th August, 2020
Guest writer
Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter, Southland. (Photo: Creative Commons)

Environment, energy, jobs: The massive impact of the Tiwai Point closure

What does the closure of New Zealand's only aluminium smelter mean for the economy and the environment?
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By Michael Andrew | 9th July, 2020
Business editor
Whakamana Cannabis Museum co-founder Abe Gray

The founder of a failed cannabis museum sounds a warning for similar startups

Cannabis legalisation could present a valuable opportunity for small businesses and startups looking to be part of a growing global industry. But will stigma around cannabis use stand in the way?
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By Shabnam Dastgheib | 16th March, 2020
Guest writer
The four leading contenders in the race for the Democratic party presidential nomination – Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg (Getty Images)

What are the Iowa caucuses and why do they matter?

It's finally time for voting in the race to challenge US President Donald Trump later in the year. Here's how it works.
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By Korey Te Hira | 3rd February, 2020
Guest writer
New co-leader of The Outdoors Party Sue Grey (via Youtube)

Outdoors Party reckons it can ride an anti-1080 wave to parliament in 2020

A fringe political party is hoping for better returns in 2020 after adding a high profile independent lawyer to the leadership team.
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By Alex Braae | 11th January, 2020
Staff Writer
Grant Robertson at the Labour Party annual conference in Whanganui. (Photo: RNZ / Yvette McCullough)

The Bulletin: Time right to borrow and spend, says Robertson

Robertson signals big borrowing to boost infrastructure, discarded e-scooters spark concern, and a big week coming for Auckland’s port. 
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By Alex Braae | 2nd December, 2019
Staff Writer
An ambulance with a campaign message scrawled on the front (Facebook – Ambulance Professionals First)

The Bulletin: Paramedics call for full govt funding

Poorly paid paramedics call for full government funding, Andrew Little signs off more surveillance warrants, and Christchurch accused links to far-right confirmed.
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By Alex Braae | 28th March, 2019
Staff Writer
A street in Kawerau, which is seeing rapidly rising house prices (Wendy Brandon)

The Bulletin: High house prices a small town issue now

Latest QV figures show huge house price rises in smaller towns, new study shows terrible bottom trawling impact, and nurses give natural disaster warning.
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By Alex Braae | 7th March, 2019
Staff Writer
State housing in the Hutt Valley (Radio NZ: Alexander Robertson)

The Bulletin: Social housing list balloons amid heavy demand

Social housing list balloons amid heavy demand, bizarre development in NZ-China relations takes in former PM, and another species of foreign fruit fly found.
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By Alex Braae | 20th February, 2019
Staff Writer
Formidable reporter, wry commentator, dear friend: a tribute to Rob Hosking

Formidable reporter, wry commentator, dear friend: a tribute to Rob Hosking

David Cohen remembers a man admired and loved by his colleagues in the media, in politics, and beyond.
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By David Cohen | 23rd January, 2019
Guest writer
Aaron Hopa, right, with his close friend Todd Blackadder, after a game on the 1997 All Black tour to the United Kingdom. (Photo: Tracey Frame’s personal collection)

When a chief dies: the Aaron Hopa story

When Gordonton's Aaron Hopa died in a tragic diving accident off Whangamatā on December 8, 1998, he left a legacy shaped by rugby, whānau, and aroha. Ben Stanley tells the story of the greatest All Black you never knew.
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By Ben Stanley | 8th December, 2018
Guest writer
Liam Fox geeks out on analysing the crumb structure of each loaf, always striving to improve (Photos: Malcolm Campbell)

Movers and bakers: Fort Greene and the mission to create the perfect sandwich

As they prepared to move to a bigger space, Auckland artisan bakers Fort Greene paused to reflect on the glorious potential held within two pieces of bread.
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By Leisha Jones | 16th September, 2018
Guest writer
Catherine Woulfe’s first child was born four years ago

C-sections can cause infertility. Mine did

For a select few women, this could be the difference between a baby, and not. I'll say it again: c-sections can cause infertility.
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By Catherine Woulfe | 13th August, 2018
Books editor
Former Jehovah’s Witness Debbie Oakley, aged seven

Silent lambs: Child sexual abuse and the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jehovah’s Witnesses are on a quest to save the ‘wicked’ from damnation. For victims of sexual abuse within the organisation, however, that quest has seen perpetrators shielded from justice
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By Amy Parsons-King | 23rd July, 2018
Guest writer
Tāmaki Paenga Hira, Auckland War Memorial Museum (PHOTO: JOEL THOMAS)

A view into the city’s future through the taonga of Auckland Museum

Henry Oliver explores the corridors and changes happening at Auckland Museum, and what they say about Tāmaki Makaurau.
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By Henry Oliver | 13th June, 2018
Guest writer
Jesse Mulligan (Image: Reagen Butler)

The making of Jesse Mulligan

Jesse Mulligan tells Alex Casey about the humiliating failures, awkward experiments and games of Strip Honk he endured along the way.
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By Alex Casey | 31st May, 2018
Contributing writer
Rival signs from rival noodle houses (Photo: Madeleine Chapman)

Would the real Mt Albert BBQ Noodle House please stand up?

Two restaurants with the exact same name operate beside each other in Mt Albert. But which is the real Mt Albert BBQ Noodle House? Madeleine Chapman eats and investigates.
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By Madeleine Chapman | 26th April, 2018
Contributor
(Getty Images)

The Bulletin: Rest home horrors

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By Alex Braae | 26th March, 2018
Staff Writer
In plain sight: behind the pages of Pavement magazine

In plain sight: behind the pages of Pavement magazine

Three women recount their experiences with the men who ran Pavement magazine and photographed for it, including allegations of sexual harassment, drugs and alcohol on set and sexual relations with a 15 year-old model.
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By Alex Casey and Noelle McCarthy | 20th March, 2018
Senior writer and contributing writer

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