Many Māori and Pacific men say they won't participate in the census. reports Public trust and confidence, especially among Māori and Pacific men, looms as a problem for the census, internal documents reveal. Already, Stats NZ has partnered with iwi in certain areas to collect data, and tried to garner support through sponsorships, like $350,000 spent on Te Matatini – the national kapa haka festival held at Ngā Ana Wai/Eden Park last month. Contingency plans have been created to boost response rates if they're low, like they were for the 2018 census .

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First published MAR 7, 2023 Updated 59 minutes ago Newsroom As the North Island reels from last month's floods, a South Island council and hotel owner are at loggerheads over a deluge seven years ago Scenic Circle Hotel Group has hit back at allegations by the West Coast Regional Council that's it's jeopardising the town of Franz Josef by holding up consents for new floodwalls. Part of Scenic Circle's Franz Josef hotel was ruined in the 2016 Waiho (Waiau) River floods and the company has been consulted as an affected party in the council's plan to improve the stopbanks.

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First published MAR 7, 2023 Updated 57 minutes ago Podcast: The Detail What is the manosphere?  The Detail  finds out about the toxic vortex of sexism, misogyny and hate that's sucking young men in online. It's sexism, misogyny and fear, wrapped up in a hatred towards feminism and anger towards women.  It's the 'manosphere' - an echo chamber where young men hang out and where their insecurities are fed on by some of the most vile men on the internet.  And it's far from harmless - some of these acolytes are inspired by each other to commit mass murder.

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LockerRoom On International Women's Day, we look at the good digital technology is doing for female athletes, how it can right its own wrongs, and how it's helping young women be physically active. writes.  We're all aware of the perils the internet and social media pose for sportswomen. They're overwhelmingly the targets of online abuse – females received 87 percent of the vitriol aimed at track and field athletes during the Tokyo Olympics. We've become more conscious of the learned bias presenting the wrong information when searching for facts about athletes.

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First published MAR 8, 2023 Updated 54 minutes ago ReadingRoom Commentary on the shortlist of the Ockham New Zealand national book awards A rare victory for populism has been declared at this morning's announcement of the 16 books shortlisted for the 2023 Ockham New Zealand national books, with the biggest-selling novel of the past year , Kāwai: For Such a Time as This  by Monty Soutar, making it onto the shortlist of four novels for the fiction prize. Commentary to follow, on fiction and the other categories; right now, the shortlist.

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First published MAR 8, 2023 Updated 30 minutes ago is a senior political reporter based in Wellington who covers Covid-19, climate change, energy, technology and violent extremism. Twitter: @marcdaalder. Show more Covid-19 Students in university halls are up to 19 times more likely to have Covid-19 right now than other young people as the academic year starts in earnest One in every 26 students in University of Auckland accommodation has Covid-19 right now, according to figures supplied to Newsroom by the university.

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First published MAR 9, 2023 Updated 51 minutes ago Andrew Bevin Auckland-based business reporter Andrew Bevin specialises in property, aged care, logistics and markets. Show more Business Education union and ministry are also hot on Rainbow Corner, owner of home-based care operation Porse. The owner of the embattled nationwide childcare networks Porse and Rainbow Corner is facing liquidation.

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First published MAR 6, 2023 Updated 44 minutes ago is Newsroom's environment editor, South Island correspondent and investigative writer. Show more Local Government A warning about the curse of corporate investors emerges for Christchurch, which is weighing up partially privatising public assets, reports Barry Corbett is probably most famous for being a Christchurch radio announcer. But he went on to become a city councillor and, after that, he had a part-time

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First published MAR 6, 2023 Updated 44 minutes ago Newsroom Special Inquiry Did a little Southland boy really fall into a pond and drown? In this Newsroom Investigates exclusive, 'drowning as a cause of death' has now been thrown into real doubt by a forensic team engaged to review the original post mortem. In an investigation spanning three years, Newsroom has uncovered new evidence in the case of the death of a Gore toddler that calls into question two police investigations, a pathologist's post mortem and a Worksafe case against the local council.

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First published MAR 6, 2023 Updated 44 minutes ago Climate Change Watch video: In the second of our 10-part video series, The Way Forward, looks at big new ideas that can lead our response to climate change.  Transport and farming are our two toughest sectors in which to combat climate change. They are our two largest sources of our greenhouse gas emissions. While both sectors have multiple ways to cut them, it's very hard to shift the status quo in either sector. The government's current goal is a 41 percent reduction in all transport emissions by 2035 from 2019 levels.

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First published MAR 13, 2023 Updated 45 minutes ago Central MP Chl ö e Swarbrick says a growing tide of disquiet with the proposed budget cuts to a range of council services encouraged her to help people submit feedback A sweeping suite of cutbacks in 's mayoral budget proposal has spurred Central's MP to launch a guide to the submissions process and encourage ers to have their say on the proposed changes. Chlöe Swarbrick said the wide-ranging cuts to services could have a damaging effect on progress on social equality and combatting the climate crisis, and hopes to unite people from disparate affected communities into speaking up together.

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First published MAR 17, 2023 Updated 1 hour ago Extreme Weather Central Hawkes Bay, overwhelmed and angry a month on from Cyclone Gabrielle, is feeling a warm glow from southern cuzzies Much like in Central Otago, people in Central Hawkes Bay are pretty keen on hunting and drinking pinot. Both 'Centrals' feature sheep farms and orchards and supply much of the country's world-beating apple crop. One thing, however, that Central Hawkes Bay(CHB) doesn't have in common with its new southern penpals is that its GPS co-ordinates put it in the zone for wayward cyclones from the South Pacific.

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Newsroom Transport Minister Michael Wood may have said now's not the time to slow down on public transport investment, but the Government is being careful to warn Aucklanders that light rail progress will be gradual Auckland's contentious plans for light rail hit another bump in the road this week with Prime Minister Chris Hipkins signalling that part of the Government 'cutting its cloth to suit the times we are in' will be staging the rollout of the project. This may have raised some eyebrows.

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First published MAR 17, 2023 Updated 1 hour ago is a senior political reporter based in Wellington who covers Covid-19, climate change, energy, technology and violent extremism. Twitter: @marcdaalder. Show more In association with Energy The National Party wants the Government's $15.7 billion hydro scheme scrapped, but the Energy Minister says they have no plan to replace it, reports Energy Minister Megan Woods has bemoaned the lack of substantive climat

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Auckland's floods unearthed a precious medal for Kiwi football great Michele Cox, carrying special memories of her professional career. was there when she saved it from the skip bin. Michele Cox wears a delicate medal around her neck. A reminder of an important era in her footballing past.   But it came so close to being lost forever in an Auckland rubbish dump. The medal washed up while I was visiting Cox – who I've known since 1989 - at the Mt Eden home she grew up in and now shares with her mum, Barbara.

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First published MAR 28, 2023 Updated 1 hour ago is Newsroom's national affairs editor, covering foreign affairs and trade, housing, and other issues of national significance. Show more Media As concerns grow about the independence of some Chinese-language news outlets in New Zealand, RNZ is stepping up with plans to start writing and translating its own stories for Chinese Kiwis Public broadcaster RNZ will start producing original Chinese-language stories and tra

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First published MAR 28, 2023 Updated 35 minutes ago Foreign Affairs After breaking a years-long gap between New Zealand ministerial visits to China, Nanaia Mahuta says the relationship is in good shape but the Government will keep discussing differences of opinion between the countries - including support for Ukraine New Zealand will keep pushing China to use its influence to help end war in Ukraine, Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta has said in the wake of her Beijing visit. However, Mahuta says a meaningful peace process must include the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine to internationally agreed boundaries - a position potentially at odds with the Chinese view of the path to peace.

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ReadingRoom Who are the middle classes and what do they want?   The book launch for Megan Nicol Reed's novel One of Those Mothers was not the kind of quiet, low-key, scantily catered book launch that takes place in quiet, low-key, scantily catered ways every week in New Zealand publishing. For a start there were a lot of people, and also it was terribly glamorous (it was more like the launch of a new eyeliner or a BMW event), and it took up two whole floors of one of those unbearable bars in Grey Lynn, and there was decent food to eat and prosecco to drink, and you could tell that there were many, many guests who earned terrific amounts of money and lifted many, many boring weights and had a fierce love for their (usually two) children.

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First published MAR 30, 2023 Updated 1 hour ago Jonathan Boston As Professor of Public Policy at the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington, Jonathan Boston specialises in managed retreat and is a member of the Government's Expert Working Group. Show more Climate Emergency Compensation for private properties and businesses zoned for managed retreat should be capped, writes Prof Jonathan Boston. Taxpayers shouldn't have to fully compensate multi-millionaires for the loss of their coastal mansions.

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Energy The data giant says it's giving back to New Zealand – giving back renewable electricity, giving back water, giving back jobs and investment. What it's not giving back is much in the way of tax. Analysis: It's little wonder Amazon needs to get a wriggle on with powering up its new data centres.   Locally-owned cloud storage providers have watched with some dismay as the tech superpower has snaffled up some of the country's biggest companies and government departments as customers. Air NZ, ANZ, BNZ, Contact Energy, Vodafone, Datacom and Xero are all customers.

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ReadingRoom Steve Braunias on the visit of a genius 100 years ago today DH Lawrence arrived in New Zealand 100 years ago on this day, a genius ablaze with his red beard and his blue eyes and his head filled not so much with thought as a constant white heat, sailing into Wellington on a passenger ship bound from Sydney. He was 36 years old, an Englishman in a woollen suit and tie. He was gaunt, sickly. He arrived in bad weather. He travelled the world in search of warm climates – Sicily, Sardinia, New Mexico; Ceylon was a bit too hot, so he went to Australia.

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First published OCT 13, 2022 Updated 6 minutes ago Foreign Affairs China's ultra-secret national party congress meeting on Sunday - at which the formal process of appointing a new leadership will begin - will shape China's future. Jason Young explains what's at stake.  In February 1956, First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev delivered a ‘secret speech' to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In it, Khrushchev denounced Joseph Stalin's cult of personality and dictatorial rule. The tenor of the speech was leaked to media, but the full text only became public in 1989, some 33 years after it was delivered.

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First published OCT 13, 2022 Updated 47 minutes ago Jo Moir Jo Moir is Newsroom's political editor. Show more Politics Winston Peters isn't reading too much into the centre-right swing at a local government level, but says political parties preparing for next year's election should take a leaf out of his book and start listening to voters The New Zealand First leader is mounting a comeback and says people shouldn't assume next year's election result is set in stone based on the local government

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