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Two decades since paid parental leave was introduced, just over 1 per cent is taken by men – yet fathers say they want to spend at least three months at home with their babies. What’s standing in the way, and is dedicated dad leave the answer? Michelle Duff reports.
In the trenches. A shock to the system. Just trying to survive. Peter Theiler’s description of the first few months with a newborn uses the language of a battlefield, or a life-threatening emergency.
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Read more: The dad trap: The parental leave system that shuts out men
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Police are investigating a family’s claims that their father had more than $500,000 siphoned from his accounts by a woman he met and moved in with. For 18 months Amy Ridout has investigated the plight of Athol Brown who was once a wealthy man, but now lives off the pension.
In March, Katie Brown climbed over a fence and rescued her father.
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Read more: ‘She cleaned him out’: Family seek answers after 92-year-old ‘left with nothing’
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A Navy sailor sexually violated and indecently assaulted his colleagues while on duty in Canada, a court martial jury has concluded.
The 27-year-old sailor, who has interim name suppression, denied the offences at the hearing held at Devonport Naval Base on Auckland’s North Shore this week.
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Read more: Navy sailor guilty of sexually assaulting colleagues during Canada trip
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ACT leader David Seymour says "Helen Clark got it right" by not signing up to the UN Declaration of Indigenous Peoples in 2007, and is now calling for all parties in Parliament to renounce the declaration.
New Zealand was one of only four countries that did not join the declaration when it was established in 2007, though National later signed up in 2010.
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A discussion document on proposed hate speech laws generated plenty of discussion in the media - and spurious claims that merely insulting people could be criminalised. Some senior journalists seized on ministers muddying the waters - but did they give the public a clear picture of what’s actually at stake?
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Read more: Media turn up heat on hate speech
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Three New York law firms now say they are considering class action lawsuits against the shell company that Rocket Lab will merge with to complete its US$4.5 billion listing on United States Nasdaq exchange.
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Read more: New York law firms seek in on the action as Rocket Lab payday approaches
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A political pundit says overall, the current Labour Government isn't open and transparent - despite portraying itself as being so.
Political commentator Ben Thomas' comments come after a Radio New Zealand report earlier this week revealed that despite the Government saying before election 2020 it wouldn't give mining giant Rio Tinto a subsidy to prevent its Tiwai Point smelter from closing, it offered to cough up millions of dollars just months later.
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Read more: Is Jacinda Ardern's Government open and transparent? 'My overall answer would be no'
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Facebook is starting to warn some users they might have seen "extremist content" on the social media platform, the company said this week.
Screenshots shared on Twitter showed a notice asking "Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?" and another that alerted users "you may have been exposed to harmful extremist content recently." Both included links to "get support."
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