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Housing supply must be considered in national planning and climate change "managed retreat" is taking shape, in the first look at reform of the Resource Management Act (RMA).
Environment Minister David Parker on Tuesday unveiled a draft of the Natural and Built Environments Act (NBA), the primary replacement for the RMA which the Government has promised to repeal and replace.
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A polar blast set to sweep across New Zealand is renewing calls for Kiwis to stay fire-wise by making sure they're using appliances safely.
Strong wind watches are being issued across the country as the cold weather brings freezing cold gales - with a windchill of -20C forecast through the Southern Alps.
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Read more: Kiwis urged to be aware of fire risks as polar blast hits
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Dozen of protesters have stood vigil outside of the New Zealand High Commision in London, voicing their objections to Kiwi transgender athlete Laurel Hubbard's Olympics selection.
Hubbard - who transitioned from man to woman in 2013 - is among five NZ weightlifters to compete at Tokyo next month, where she'll become the first ever transgender Olympian.
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Jacinda Ardern has come under attack for her defence of expanded hate speech proposals, with ACT leader David Seymour describing the Prime Minister as "out of her depth".
The Government last week published a discussion document which outlines plans to add religious groups and rainbow communities in beefed up hate speech legislation.
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Read more: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern under attack for defence of hate speech proposals
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OPINION: Jacinda Ardern is wrong about her own hate speech law. Completely and utterly wrong.
Not only is the Prime Minister wrong about the basic facts of the proposal, she was wrong to shut down debate on hate speech on The AM Show this morning with her glib, inaccurate dismissals.
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Read more: Jacinda Ardern has misled the public and shut down debate on hate speech laws
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Earlier this year, Stuff reported that New Zealand and the United States had been on the cusp of starting talks on a free trade agreement in 2020– a top policy goal for New Zealand since the 1930s.
Newly released documents show just how close those talks came – before coming unstuck at the final hurdle.
In a meeting room, somewhere in New York City in 2019, Donald Trump turned away from Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to speak to his officials with a look of urgency.
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Read more: Winston goes to Washington: New Zealand's hunt for an elusive US trade deal
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Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta says she raised the human rights situations in Xinjiang and Hong Kong "in a very general nature" with her Chinese counterpart during a virtual meeting on Tuesday.
The dialogue came as New Zealand signed a statement at the United Nations Human Rights Council expressing grave concern about the abuses and calling for "immediate, meaningful and unfettered access" to Xinjiang for independent observers.
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Hong Kong police arrested a former senior journalist with the Apple Daily newspaper at the international airport on Sunday night on a suspected national security charge as he tried to leave the city, according to local media reports.
Fung Wai-kong would be the seventh staffer at the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper to be arrested on national security grounds in recent weeks. He was an editor and columnist at the now-closed paper, local media reported.
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