Editorial

The most interesting All Blacks selection didn’t come among the 36 names that Scott Robertson put forward on Monday. Blues and Counties star Hoskins Sotutu had been the most notable omission from the All Blacks’ first squad of the season. He had...

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Public servants have been under intense scrutiny in Wellington this year as the coalition Government continues its drive to cut costs and find efficiencies. The latest expectation placed on their shoulders: save a “dying” Wellington by returning...

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The sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui couldn’t have come at a more fragile time for our Defence Force. Seventy-five crew and passengers were rescued by Samoa’s Fire and Emergency Services Authority after the $100 million Navy vessel ran aground...

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Education (children going to school), Transport (potholes and orange cones), Finance (pay), Infrastructure (new homes, fixing old pipes), Defence/Space (flying to the Moon), Foreign Affairs (making sure our international voice is heard), Police (law...

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If an adult can’t watch a children’s sporting fixture without hurling abuse at referees, rival spectators or coaches — and indeed without finding their emotions so charged they end up in a fight — then they really shouldn’t be anywhere...

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Light at the end of the tunnel? Green shoots? Call it what you want, a sense of optimism is seeping back into the business community. As the NZ Herald’s Mood of the Boardroom survey demonstrated yesterday, the country’s top chief executives are...

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Liam Lawson’s long journey to a Formula One seat has highlighted one of the oddest things about motorsport. Lawson will drive the last six races of the 2025 season for Racing Bulls, the subsidiary team of Red Bull. As expected, he replaces...

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Traffic chaos around Auckland Airport’s new mall has intensified long-standing tension with the airport’s main customers — the nearly 30 airlines that fly there. Despite road management plans and other measures to cope with the opening weekend...

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To make a project billions of dollars over budget and mired in controversy look good is no mean feat. Yet the longer this coalition Government takes to decide on a plan to replace Interislander’s ageing ferries, the better the old one is starting...

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Public Service Minister Nicola Willis has asked government departments to call their staff back to the office and to enforce stricter rules around working from home. She has issued new guidance to the Public Service Commissioner, setting an...

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Homeless people — especially young tamariki squeezed into motel living accommodation — are not the headlines any Government wants. That’s why the coalition Government must be applauded for the speed and urgency it placed on getting children...

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The thing about a surprise sporting defeat is you don’t see it coming. As soon as the All Blacks returned from their brave-yet-fruitless two-test trip to South Africa, discussion turned to the perils they face on the end-of-year tour, on which...

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Kiwis in Hamilton and Dunedin looking to head across the Tasman are set to have the welcome return of Jetstar flights — and airline competition. The new Hamilton Jetstar service will be the fourth attempt to make a success of a direct transtasman...

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Wellington Mayor Tory Whanau was this week asked if she could relate to the financial stress facing the capital’s business owners who had been forced to shut up shop, and public sector workers losing their jobs. It was perhaps a chance for her to...

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“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Few would argue with that sentiment from former South African statesman Nelson Mandela. The students gathered to hear those words at a US high school in June 1990...

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When Shane Reti waved his health tokotoko (Māori ceremonial walking stick) at the Hawke’s Bay health organisation giving free GP visits to Māori and Pasifika youth aged 14-24, he had a golden platform to enforce the coalition Government’s...

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