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The man who will be king
Next month's coronation marks the final chapter in Charles III's accession to the throne. But what kind of king will he be?
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April 29- May 05, 2023
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Strand of worms
Online DNA testing may reveal more than we bargained for and be used against us in far-reaching ways, warns NOEL O'HARE. It could also save our lives.
10+ min |
April 29- May 05, 2023
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A stitch in time
Former shopaholic Amanda Butterworth now takes up arms against fast fashion, writes CAITLIN SYKES.
4 min |
April 29- May 05, 2023
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Going down a storm
Straight-talking Kieran McAnulty is the right bloke for the job of convincing people to accept the latest water reform proposal.
3 min |
April 29- May 05, 2023
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Stealing their hearts away
United States President Joe Biden has recently been through his beloved Ireland, less like a dose of salts than a river of soothing treacle.
2 min |
April 29- May 05, 2023
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Language matters
Driving around the South Island, I marvelled all over again. It's so vast and spectacular, so different, in many ways, from the North. It's so wildly beautiful it gives you a sense of privilege. In town for a book event at Wanaka's Festival of Colour, I talked to broadcaster Kathryn Ryan, and noticed our alternative north-south perspectives. She thought Wanaka was getting quite built up, while I, the Aucklander, could hardly believe the South Island's exhilarating emptiness.
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April 29- May 05, 2023
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Young, scared and feared
It was the winter of 2012, and I was sitting in my car in a parking lot - I find if you sit in a parking lot without a car you attract suspicion waiting for my daughter to emerge from a swim meet after-party. I flipped on NPR (National Public Radio) and spent the next hour listening, dumbfounded, to transgender kids and their parents tell stories from what seemed to be the first-ever gathering of those who shared their unique journey. I certainly already knew there were transgender people, but I'm equally certain I didn't know there were trans kids of single-digit age, and the stories from this conference - where clearly some of them realised for the first time they weren't alone in this were gut-wrenching.
2 min |
April 29- May 05, 2023
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Beware thinking big
The government could have saved itself and the country much angst by studying the mistakes of a past PM, writes RICK CHRISTIE.
2 min |
April 29- May 05, 2023
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In it for the long haul
Clarke Gayford clambers into the cab for a second season of his hit home-shift show.
3 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Razzas on parade
A tour of our RSAS is an amiable Anzac Day excursion, barring some uncomfortable history.
2 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Coming home to roost
Britain's greatest living nature broadcaster charts a lifetime of decline in his own backyard.
3 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Home truths
Eviscerating lyrics draped in melodic indie rock.
2 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Bearing up
Stefania LaVie Owen is ready for grown-up roles but on her own terms.
4 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Breaking the silence
First-hand stories from both the victims and perpetrators of China's brutal Cultural Revolution make for a gripping history.
3 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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High spirits
Mountaineer overcomes a life altering accident to find contentment away from the alps.
3 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Survival tactics
Pandemic satire delivers pacy plot and much food for thought.
2 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Critical thinker
In questioning the wisdom of his forebears, a Greek philosopher laid the foundations for the modern scientific method.
4 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Watch this space
Cyclone Gabrielle exposed telco vulnerabilities but now a satellite-to-mobile service is on the horizon.
3 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Calories that count
Older people unintentionally losing weight are particularly at risk of becoming malnourished. Here are some tips for maintaining the kilos.
3 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Error message
Scientists have a better understanding of how the gut-brain link causes irritable bowel syndrome.
3 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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The enigma of the flying boot
A curious WWII badge left to ANN CHAPMAN by her mother turned out to be the insignia of a club dubbed the 'most exclusive in the world'.
5 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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An all-inclusive holiday?
Three public holidays claim to define our identity as New Zealanders. So which one should be our national day?
9 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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The unfortunate consequence
In an extract from her new book, Demonising a Good Doctor, former GP DR HELEN OVERTON revisits the 1988 Cartwright Inquiry into the treatment of cervical cancer at National Women's Hospital, and argues that it profoundly changed the way the health system is managed.
8 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Force for good
Born in 1930s Austria, Inge Woolf devoted much of her later life to fostering tolerance in her adopted country of New Zealand.
8 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Learning to breathe
For something so basic to health, good breathing doesn't come naturally to most of us. NIKI BEZZANT finds out where we're going wrong.
10 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Underwater rescue
Dr Matt Carter is diving for the sake of seas in jeopardy from oil-leaching shipwrecks, writes CAITLIN SYKES.
5 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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The royal wave
Former PM Jacinda Ardern departs with dignity while the mean Greens scrap among themselves.
4 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Waxing and waning
Political attack jobs being in the news just now, it's worth noting that some of the best ones are inadvertent.
2 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Tune in, drop out
We don't trust the news like we used W to. That much was evident in the recently published \"Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand 2023\", the fourth such survey from the AUT Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy.
2 min |
April 22 - 28 2023
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Welcome to the fatherland
It might be nice for beer-guzzling, a lederhosen-clad holiday, but nobody wants to come to Germany to work. At least, that's what recent research published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development appears to indicate.
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