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Outreach kaimahi (worker) Josh Potter-Gardiner has also seen a family of six stuck living in a portacom, a 75-year-old grandfather sleeping in a slide, and full-time workers and students living in their cars.

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can’t be long until the kids get a warm red bull and a dart for lunch

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Four people have been arrested in relation to a protest at the Auckland Pride event last month, and police say more arrests are likely. One of the four (a 67-year-old man) has been charged with indecent assault.

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Unsurprising that the TPU is facing a defamation lawsuit for this - it was a shocker, even for them

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looking forward to the herald switching its editorial direction to "they really want you to eat the bugs"

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Government officials raised concerns about Compass and Libelle after hearing the companies were shortlisted to provide the revamped school lunch programme last year. www.nzherald.co.nz/business/off...

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I’ve been asked to join the Waitangi Tribunal. Anyone know what this is? Haven’t looked into it

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No, slowly driving my huge car through the CBD for no obvious benefit and to the inconvenience of others is a sacred ritual

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A bizarre and wasteful roading project in the North Island guaranteed to massively inflate in cost… get it onto the RoNS programme www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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A striking graph I haven't seen before: The wealth gap between young and old in New Zealand has widened dramatically in a short period.

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RNZ's Maia Ingoe looks at new research highlighting a circular pattern in submissions on road spending: we must spend more $ on roads because people don't have good alternatives to driving, we must also not spend $ on alternatives bc we need it to upgrade+maintain roads www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

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Trying to be less cynical in life but “everyone must go” as a tourism slogan has defeated me

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Our economy is Trump-proof. You can’t tariff mum and dad landlords selling increasingly expensive properties to each other.

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Increasingly seeing streets being named after people with knighthoods. It’s glory hogging.

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Developed my own AI benchmarking tool - asking “what towns in NZ have a KFC but no McDonald’s” Claude: Tokoroa, but acknowledges it might be hallucinating (Tokoroa has a McDonald’s)

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Climate commissioner has link to coal mine project being considered for fast-track approval www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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Tūranga in Christchurch is the greatest building in the Southern Hemisphere

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It is truly strange how embedded this myth has become among the political class. DOC is not presiding over a vast empire of scrubland that it’s holding economically hostage for some reason www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3504...

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The Press is hiring! We're looking for a Journalist with a hunger to tell the news that matters to Te Waipounamu, the South Island, in compelling ways both digitally and in print media. We're also looking for a Senior Journalist keen to report on business, economics and infrastructure projects.

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It’s hard to coordinate action in an individualistic culture, and this is one result - rare birds getting run over, eaten, and terrorised on a beach www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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The agriculture industry has been in frequent contact with the government, and what it asks for typically ends up in law, hundreds of pages of documents show www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3605...

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I lose all respect for contestants on The Chase who congratulate the Chaser for winning. Go down swinging.

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Crack up to change the name of a village but not its railway station.

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I loved working on this story for @nzgeo.bsky.social—it's one of the few happy stories about the natural world that I've been able to write. A true delight. Incredible pictures, too, by ocean photographer extraordinaire Richard Robinson: www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-...

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I got the Luigi Mangione manifesto. The real one, not the forgery circulating online. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-man...

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Bees were popping off when they came up with honey

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Just horrific and a chilling example of what some women go through, and how little they’re listened to, even here in New Zealand

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