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Local Focus: Tauranga candidates defend their credibility
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Bright solution! Futuristic idea pitched for shelter shortage
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Winston Peters promises $25 million marine research centre
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Tauranga Arts Festival Escape! pop-up next month
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Local Focus: Business or the environment – what's more important for Tauranga candidates?
Some Tauranga candidates won't pick one over the other. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Local Focus: Business or the environment – what's more important for Tauranga candidates?
Some Tauranga candidates won't pick one over the other. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Letters to the editor: Swapping one bad habit for a worse one
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Māori Party wants NZ renamed Aotearoa, all cities to take Māori names by 2026
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Kristin Macfarlane: Ignorance valued speaking another person's language over my own
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