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NZ Covid outbreak ‘like nothing we’ve experienced’, Ardern says, as cases skyrocket
Virus-free for much of the pandemic, New Zealand is now reporting near-daily record case numbersSee all our co…
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‘What would your mother say?’ New Zealand urges citizens to wind back online rage
Experts say pandemic pressures have contributed to a huge increase in abuse and antisocial behaviourFaced with…
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At least 32 people take advantage of New Zealand assisted dying laws in first three months
Euthanasia was legalised in November, following years of campaigning by advocates and a referendumAt least 32 …
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New Zealand Omicron wave likely to peak in March with up to 30,000 cases a day, says Ardern
Prime minister says number of people who get booster vaccines will dictate how high the peak will beAs New Zea…
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New Zealand Māori party calls for a ‘divorce’ from Britain’s royal family
Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi said the move was ‘an opportunity to reimagine a more meaningful and fulfilling…
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From outrage to No 1 hits: how Māori musicians conquered the charts in their own language
Once, singing in te reo Māori could trigger a backlash – now New Zealand’s indigenous language is at the heart…
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Kleptomaniac New Zealand parrot steals GoPro, films airborne escape
The kea filmed some majestic views over the Kepler Track, as well as a closeup of its own slightly frenzied at…
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‘We’re all nervous’: NZ’s Covid tsar Chris Hipkins admits uncertainty over border reopening
The minister responsible for New Zealand’s pandemic response says the future is ‘still something that’s the su…
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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern shrugs off car chase by anti-vaccination protesters
A car of protestors yelled ‘shame on you’ as they pursued the prime minister’s van but Ardern says she wasn’t …
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As Omicron rages around the world, Ardern deploys an old tactic – delay
Jacinda Ardern says Omicron is ‘knocking at our door’ as the prime minister faces criticism over gaps in prepa…
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‘They got out of hand’: Auckland street wrestles with fate of 400 pet rabbits
After years of complaints from neighbours and concerns about house prices, hundreds of rabbits in a suburban g…
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Burps in space: new satellite to track global methane emissions
New Zealand to be mission control for ‘MethaneSAT’ which will collect data on emissions from bovine flatulence…
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New Zealand airport worker tests positive to Covid on second day of travel bubble
Jacinda Ardern says cleaner was fully vaccinated and ‘all signs point’ to case having no connection to Austral…
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Jacinda Ardern says start of trans-Tasman travel bubble is ‘truly exciting’
First flight lands in Auckland just after 12.30pm with hundreds more expected to make the Australia-New Zealan…
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‘Only in New Zealand!’: Relics found in coffee jars in rubble of Christchurch cathedral
The relics – purported to be bones of saints – were found buried in rubble of the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes It…