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Duncan Garner: Here’s the real threat to Māori, so why have they missed it?

New Zealand's rapidly changing demographic is bound to impact on Māori identity,

Jane Clifton: Environmental and economic toll of cruise ships is a floating crisis

More and more ports are banning massive cruise ships.

Tureiti, Lady Moxon: ‘What this government has done is destroy years of hard work’

Govt rollback on Māori health initiatives damages & runs counter to Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Duncan Garner: How many kiwis still need to quit to meet NZ's smokefree 2025 goal?

Smokefree 2025 has been a great success, but could it fail at the final hurdle?

Some doctors, care facilities and hospices obstructing patients’ right to die

Numerous complaints of deliberate obstruction to assisted dying have been received.

Elon Musk’s assault on British politics: What’s next for UK PM Keir Starmer?

With Musk turning his vitriol on UK politicians, it seems they must sit tight and smile.

Charlotte Grimshaw: The winds of change

The winds of change are blowing: they may cause headaches, nausea and depression.

Duncan Garner: Dear Prime Minister, just what is the plan to stop Kiwis leaving?

Right now, all I see are Kiwis buying one-way airline tickets; I’m calling it an F U fee.

Jane Clifton: How an evangelical Christian Protestant has divided Ireland

The figure keeping Ireland’s most famous modern-day vigil is unlikely to warm the cockles.

Guinness craze: How social media influencers caused a Christmas shortage

Guinness shortage exposes the power of social media trends.

Charlotte Grimshaw: We need to brace for the wild year ahead

2025 promises a wild ride: the climate, the politics, the geopolitical instability.

Jane Clifton: A short goodbye to listicles

The auction of crime writer Raymond Chandler's old listicle sparks some genuine surprise.

Duncan Garner: Frontline services now the target of this cost-cutting regime

Boken promises and broken books end messy year.

How an ancient fish may hold the key to Aussie PM’s re-election

Is Anthony Albanese's govt about to sanction the world’s first modern-day fish extinction?

Duncan Garner: The Good, the really bad and the downright disastrous of 2024

So 2024, it's almost a wrap – and, from me to it, good riddance.

Jane Clifton: Brits want royals to talk more about social issues and less about personal lives

Brexit, Royals and the Jaguar rebrand expose UK contradictions.

Guyon Espiner: I’ll go into the new year with a sense of survivor’s guilt

In Australian media circles they warn, ‘don’t become like New Zealand’.

Charlotte Grimshaw: On NZ’s new gang-patch ban

Would you really rather know who’s a gang member and who isn’t?