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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 4h

Today from The Detail: Amid celebrations that their youngest MP made the cover of Time, ructions threaten to blow Māori politics apart.

Months of controversy loom over Te Pāti Māori's 'reset' day

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 5h

Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.

Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt

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A decision by officials to nominate three areas in Auckland that could lose weekly rubbish collections has lit a fuse among candidates and some voters.

Local politics is garbage

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The design of the new Jobseeker policy incentivises parents of unemployed teenagers to work fewer hours, for fear of the teens losing their benefit.

Govt to meet 9% of Jobseeker target by taking teens off benefit

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 6h

Comment from Auckland University: Measles vaccination levels in NZ have dipped well below that necessary for herd immunity, exposing us to diseases we thought we’d consigned to history.

Open the door to measles, and it won't stop there

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Nationwide, Parliamentary parties are entrenching their influence in local elections over that of locally derived groupings.

Parliamentary parties crowd out other blocs in local elections

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 6h

NZ's best book reviewer on a major biography of the caustic, abrasive, sarcastic and loveable Chris Knox.

Book of the Week: To Chris with love

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 7h

More businesses pull staff back from their home offices, though both incentives and consequences for compliance are rare. Alice Peacock reports

NZ bosses push ‘return to office’ mandates – but few are enforcing it

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 7h

Comment from Auckland University: How psychologist Nigel Latta used science and camaraderie to influence how we see and talk about parenting.

Five things Nigel Latta did for parenting

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 7h

Exclusive: The Government has avoided questions about whether it’s joining preparations for a US confrontation with China. Until now, the public has had no insight.

Secret defence notes pointing to sensitive China preparation left at op shop

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 11h

Comment: Minister Judith Collins has relaxed constraints on consultants spend, after the public sector massively over-delivered on promised spending cuts ... and the Govt work-rate slowed accordingly.

Public spend on consultants slashed – but not to those embedded deep in govt

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 13h

Who created our quintessential cuisine? Credit for first putting cheese in a pastry-topped beef pie is hotly contested – but one thing seems certain, it was a Kiwi. Jonathan Milne investigates.

The mystery of NZ's world-famous mince and cheese pie

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 16h

Test your smarts with Newsroom's daily crossword.

Daily crossword, Thursday 9 October

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Newsroom NZ @newsroom.co.nz · 16h

Public broadcaster’s top editor is grilled on internal messages and 1News practices in defamation case brought by food processor Talley’s